On 19/03/17 22:26:28 CET, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Hello, Francesco, I was thinking as Users we could discuss the options > here first and then make a proposal of the "debian-plasma-desktop" to > the KDE team. > > Utilities= ark, kcalc, kwrite, spectacle. > > System= bleachbit, kinfo, partition-manager or gparted, konsole, > kwalletmanager, synaptic, dolphin. Personally I prefer konqueror and > kdf over dolphin, maybe just because I've been using konq and kdf, it > seems like forever. > > Settings= systemsettings > > Office= okular > > Multimedia= vlc, k3b > > Internet= firefox, kget > > Graphics= gwenview > > Things like sddm, plasma-networkmanager, kdeconnect, bluetooth and > wireless should just work.
Thanks for your suggestions Jimmy. However I'd like to start from the top by discussing the dependencies required by the *task-kde-desktop* package and then the other meta-packages. Here are the dependencies of task-kde-desktop, on the right my suggestions. task-kde-desktop Depends: tasksel Depends: task-desktop Depends: kde-standard Depends: sddm Recommends: kdeaccessibility --> change to: Suggests Recommends: gnome-orca --> change to: Suggests Recommends: k3b --> change to: Suggests Recommends: k3b-i18n --> change to: Suggests Recommends: plasma-nm Recommends: kdesudo Recommends: libreoffice-kde Recommends: apper --> substitute with: synaptic Recommends: gimp Recommends: firefox-esr Recommends: libreoffice Recommends: libreoffice-help-en-us Recommends: mythes-en-us Recommends: hunspell-en-us Recommends: hyphen-en-us Recommends: system-config-printer Recommends: dragonplayer --> substitute with: vlc # kdeaccessibility and gnome-orca Accessibility tools not essential in a basic installation, they are needed only in particular cases. These packages should be marked at most as "suggested" or removed from the dependency list. IMHO the installation of accessibility tools should be triggered differently and already via the debian-installer and not listed here. # k3b CD and DVD are not completely abandoned but is a fact that by now they are superseded by flash drives and other portable storage devices. This package should be marked as suggested. # apper It should be dead upstream (it is written in the changelog!) and the alternative is plasma-discover that is really bugged. The only sane alternative is synaptic. IMHO package management should be entrusted to a distro specific tool. However it remains the issue of updates notifications. They didn't work, at least for me, nor with apper nor with discover. But with synaptic only? Maybe we should try pk-update-icon (but it has Gnome dependencies). # dragonplayer It is a really simple player but other applications provide a better user experience. I prefer smplayer and mpv but I recognize that vlc is a better choice for the general public and it integrates well with the Plasma Desktop.
