Joey Hess wrote: >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> This goes back to during the wheezy release cycle. There was a little >> discussion around a change in tasksel [1], but rather too late in the >> day for the change to make sense. Now we have rather more time, I >> feel. Let's change the default desktop for installation to xfce. > >So, I wish that wheezy had shipped with xfce as the default. It was the >better choice of the options we had (although possbly kde would have >been a good choice too).
Right. ... >Anyway, at the moment I don't know which is the right choice for jessie. >There is a full year for gnome to be improved, and it could easily be >a better experience for users at that point. I would not be opposed to >changing the default for xfce for now, and reverting it if gnome's >improvements make it a better choice. OK. I suggest that we *try* that for now. I'm also suggesting that we drop our CDs soon, *except* for keeping the netinst around. Unless we get a lot of feedback from people asking explicitly for full CD sets, I'm more convinced than ever that we can just drop them. >I do wish that some of the .. energy .. seen in these threads could be >used for something more interesting. For example, find a way to detect >touch screen systems, on which xfce is *not* pleasant, and don't install >a desktop task there, but a separate task with whichever UI is currently >best suited for tablets. OK... :-) >> * Tweak CD and installer builds: >> + change what happens with no desktop selected to use xfce instead >> of Gnome (netinst, DVD, BD etc.) > >The tasksel change handles that. Almost all of it. debian-cd/tools/update_tasks will also need some simple tweaks. At the moment, for example, a generic build implies task-gnome-desktop, and that would need changing. >> + Add an explicitly-named Gnome CD#1 >> + Remove the explicitly-named XFCE CD#1 > >You might consider making the default CD be a symlink to the explicitly >named desktop CD. If we keep them, sure. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Support the Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression: http://www.eff.org/cafe/ -- 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/e1vzqjt-00010r...@mail.einval.com
