On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 03:04:35PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 14:49:04 -0500 > Mitt Green <mitt_gr...@protonmail.ch> wrote: > > > golinux wrote: > > > > >I specifically asked what should be REMOVED from the default xfce > > >desktop > > > > Nothing. Xfce even lack necessary components like pdf viewer and a > > file archiver (xarchiver is not their project right? They had squeeze > > back then but it's no longer maintained now). > > This is something I never understood. Why expect your window > manager/desktop environment to give you functionalities? Why not > install them a-la-carte to get the exact system you want? > > As a matter of fact, putting functionalities in the wm/de makes it more > likely they'll get entangled with irrelevant stuff like dbus, > PulseAudio, and systemd. I mean, if your wm/de already uses this stuff, > why not incorporate it in your functionality in some silly way, perhaps > to gain a feature nobody even wanted. > > I'm a fan of a-la-carte myself.
So the default window manager should come up with an xterm, and a menu with only one entry that will show us a README file that shows a file explaining our recommendations for what packages to install for what purposes. That would clue the beginners in, minimally. And it might actually work! -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
