On 04/04/2014 10:42 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 02:52:41PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: >> We go over the same ground over and over. I'm increasingly in favour of *no* >> default. You must pick one from a list on install. Randomize the list if >> necessary. > > And can I pass my granddad's phone call on to you when he is stuck > choosing among names that are absolutely obscure to him like "GNOME", > "Xfce", and "KDE"?
If we are the universal OS, we shouldn't just focus on non-experts, we shall try to satisfy everyone. If someone implements the choice thing (after years we're talking about, I still have hope...), then it's probably a good thing to keep it in the expert mode only. Which of course leads to: we still have a default to decide, in the case of the non-expert mode. Then, maybe a GR for deciding which DE should be the default could be considered. It's not like the init system: I think every DD has enough knowledge to decide, especially because this is a very subjective choice with tastes and habits involved (TWM anyone? :)). I'm not sure I would like to take the burden of being the person proposing the GR and writing the text though, and I would prefer to first discuss if it is a good idea to do that (some may very dislike that idea). Thomas Goirand (zigo) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/533f8f6a.5000...@debian.org
