Roger Lynn <ro...@rilynn.me.uk> writes: > How often is the choice of default desktop re-evaluated, and how is this > done?
We have an argument about it at least once every release cycle. One of the problems with the recurring argument is that we don't have a good decision-making criteria. Another problem is that the discussion is generally held among Debian developers here, and very few people reading this mailing list would feel at all constrained by the default selection in the installer. So it's one of those decisions that is made by people outside of the target audience for the results of the decision, which is always tricky. For example, I use Xfce and have ever since GNOME stopped supporting the video card on my previous laptop, although I probably should have switched to KDE when I switched laptops just to keep trying the different environments. But nearly the only programs I run in X are xterm, Emacs, Pidgin, and Iceweasel, I turn off most of the features of any desktop environment, and I never ever use file browsers, so relying on my opinion to choose the default desktop environment for average users is a bit like asking a gourmet chef what brand of microwave to buy. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87r4bae1q8....@windlord.stanford.edu
