Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-13 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/11/2014 07:49 AM, Cameron Norman wrote: El dom, 10 de ago 2014 a las 11:39 , Kees de Jong keesdej...@gmail.com escribió: Why are we discussing CD/DVD sizes? Why not just use an USB netinstall? It's then possible to download and install the stuff you need, if you don't want to use a lot

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-12 Thread Wookey
+++ Kees de Jong [2014-08-12 02:03 +0200]: Are we really comparing RAM here as if it were the 90's? How many people here use Android? Today it needs 512 MB to function properly. In two years that could be 1 or 2 GB and that's a mobile OS. How much RAM does your browser use? Too

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-12 Thread Wookey
+++ Anthony F McInerney [2014-08-12 00:02 +0100]: XFCE: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:506756 362468 144288 6568 22756 179264 -/+ buffers/cache: 160448 346308 Swap: 392188 0

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 12 août 2014 à 03:03 +0100, Anthony F McInerney a écrit : I had stated previously XFCE had started showing memory usage similar to gnome. This has quite obviously changed. I was wrong, and i'm posting it as a correction to my statement. You’re comparing apples and oranges. These

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-12 Thread Anthony F McInerney
On 12 August 2014 09:51, Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: Could you do MATE too please? MATE: (with mate-desktop-environment-extras) free ^[[C total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 506756 397480 109276 7096 58820 166076 -/+ buffers/cache: 172584 334172 Swap: 392188 0 392188 The ctrl

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-12 Thread Anthony F McInerney
We happen at work to have users with very important needs of 3D resources, so one of my colleagues conducted some performance tests with and without a compositor (the compositor being GNOME 3). It turns out that with a recent adapter, 3D applications are running a small bit faster under

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 12 août 2014 à 13:12 +0100, Anthony F McInerney a écrit : Virtualbox Results (no guest drivers installed) Glxgears is not a relevant 3D benchmark. But the funniest thing is that you did this test without any 3D acceleration, which is not representative at all of most real-world

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-12 Thread Anthony F McInerney
I enjoy the way you keep ignoring the relevant points, memory usage and performance regressions. And the way you benchmarked gnome against gnome. How about warsaw on xfce on the same hardware or your benchmarks pretty much show nothing except that your 'slight performance increase when using

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Thomas Weber
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 03:20:49AM +0100, Anthony F McInerney wrote: Would the people who are claiming that blank cdr are cheaper than dvdr, especially in third world countries, please cite sources (shops, price checkers etc) of the price of say 5 pack or 10 pack, even up to 50pack of CD's, vs

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Anthony F McInerney
On Mon, 11 Aug, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Thomas Weber twe...@debian.org wrote: Not sure why you'd want to go for third world countries, but let's look at Germany (Aldi is one of the two biggest discounters here):

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014, at 12:23, Anthony F McInerney wrote: Can we now move on to choosing a DE? Nope, we still don't have enough anecdotic evidence and trolling yet[1]... O. 1. Not target at you, just general observation of d-d... -- Ondřej Surý ond...@sury.org Knot DNS

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread shirish शिरीष
at bottom :- On 8/11/14, Thomas Weber twe...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 03:20:49AM +0100, Anthony F McInerney wrote: Would the people who are claiming that blank cdr are cheaper than dvdr, especially in third world countries, please cite sources (shops, price checkers etc) of

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 11:15:15AM +0200, Thomas Weber wrote: Not sure why you'd want to go for third world countries, but let's look at Germany (Aldi is one of the two biggest discounters here): http://www.presseportal.de/pm/112096/2653870/aldi-senkt-preise-fuer-fischprodukte-oel-und-smoothies

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Lennart Sorensen: it needs buttons on windows that people expect to see where they expect to see them You mean left vs. right side? Would Debian be willing to make gnome3 have different defaults than upstream in the interest of actually being useable to new users who are used to other

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2014-08-11 at 03:20 +0100, Anthony F McInerney wrote: [...] If people have old CD only machines i would not like to attempt to get kernel 3.16 +drivers +userland working on that. I've been in that situation plenty of times, where woody or potato are better simply because the drivers

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 05:34:04PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: You mean left vs. right side? Or even showing them at all (certainly last time I bothered to look at gnome 3 it seemed to think buttons on windows were mostly to be avoided). People who are so afraid of new stuff to learn that

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread David Weinehall
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 01:35:28PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: All I personally expect from a window manager is: Be able to launch programs (ideally using alt+F2) Available in GNOME 3. Be able to resize the window using the edge of the window Available in GNOME 3. Have a

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 07:42:41PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: Available in GNOME 3. Available in GNOME 3. Not enabled by default (if I remember correctly), but possible to enable using gnome-tweak-tool. I shouldn't have to know that. And I am pretty sure when gnome3 appeared in sid,

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Anthony F McInerney
How do you measure memory? Free? Could you quite possibly post the output of free and whatever else you measure with? (the full output) For reference against jessie, i'm installing an up to date jessie right now... Thanks Anthony (bofh80)

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread David Weinehall
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 01:47:53PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 07:42:41PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: Available in GNOME 3. Available in GNOME 3. Not enabled by default (if I remember correctly), but possible to enable using gnome-tweak-tool. I

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 11.08.2014 22:09, schrieb David Weinehall: On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 01:47:53PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 07:42:41PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: Available in GNOME 3. Available in GNOME 3. Not enabled by default (if I remember correctly), but possible to

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread David Weinehall
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:40:04PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: [snip] Are you missing anything from the GNOME Classic mode *)? It offers exactly what you are asking for, with zero need for configuration. It's available right next to the GNOME session on your login manager. Michael *)

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Anthony F McInerney
XFCE: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:506756 362468 144288 6568 22756 179264 -/+ buffers/cache: 160448 346308 Swap: 392188 0 392188 GNOME: total used free shared

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Kees de Jong
Are we really comparing RAM here as if it were the 90's? How many people here use Android? Today it needs 512 MB to function properly. In two years that could be 1 or 2 GB and that's a mobile OS. How much RAM does your browser use? My Chrome/Firefox easily uses 1 GB. My GNOME 3.10 desktop (running

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Noel Torres
On Monday, 11 de August de 2014 16:34:04 Matthias Urlichs escribió: Hi, Lennart Sorensen: it needs buttons on windows that people expect to see where they expect to see them You mean left vs. right side? Would Debian be willing to make gnome3 have different defaults than upstream

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Anthony F McInerney
On 12 August 2014 01:03, Kees de Jong keesdej...@gmail.com wrote: Are we really comparing RAM here as if it were the 90's? I had stated previously XFCE had started showing memory usage similar to gnome. This has quite obviously changed. I was wrong, and i'm posting it as a correction to my

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Noel Torres: I think we should not care about Gnome's target audience, but about Debian's target audience. Remember Debian Social Contract , #4. No single DE can be the perfect DE-to-end-all-DE-flames^Wdiscussions to all users. If the missing min+max buttons is the only problem here, a

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-10 Thread Kees de Jong
Why are we discussing CD/DVD sizes? Why not just use an USB netinstall? It's then possible to download and install the stuff you need, if you don't want to use a lot of bandwidth then choose no desktop environment or XFCE/LXDE. But if you can spare some more time then you can install GNOME/KDE.

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-10 Thread Joel Rees
2014/08/08 18:14 Yves-Alexis Perez cor...@debian.org: [...] Put it another way, Xfce (and other DEs) have been hurt by the various enforced transitions (ConsoleKit, hal/devicekit-power/upower/upower-0.99), yes. Combined with the lack of resources, that means it lays behind the people who

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-10 Thread Cameron Norman
El dom, 10 de ago 2014 a las 11:39 , Kees de Jong keesdej...@gmail.com escribió: Why are we discussing CD/DVD sizes? Why not just use an USB netinstall? It's then possible to download and install the stuff you need, if you don't want to use a lot of bandwidth then choose no desktop environment

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-10 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/10/2014 02:39 PM, Kees de Jong wrote: Why are we discussing CD/DVD sizes? Why not just use an USB netinstall? It's then possible to download and install the stuff you need, if you don't want to use a lot of bandwidth then choose no

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-10 Thread Anthony F McInerney
Would the people who are claiming that blank cdr are cheaper than dvdr, especially in third world countries, please cite sources (shops, price checkers etc) of the price of say 5 pack or 10 pack, even up to 50pack of CD's, vs the same amount of DVD's, from those third world countries. Is the price

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-09 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On ven., 2014-08-08 at 18:38 -0700, Paul C. Bryan wrote: With all due respect to XFCE, I'd hate the interpretation to be along the lines of, Oh, Debian state of the art desktop environment feels something like Windows, circa 2000. But, XFCE's lightweight. It's meant to lack such fancy

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-09 Thread Johannes Schaffrath
On 08/08/2014 11:14 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On jeu., 2014-08-07 at 23:57 +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: Hi Debian, About the decision itself, as Debian Xfce main maintainer, I honestly don't really care. I don't think the default desktop matters that much on Debian (while I guess it means a

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On jeu., 2014-08-07 at 23:57 +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: Hi Debian, About the decision itself, as Debian Xfce main maintainer, I honestly don't really care. I don't think the default desktop matters that much on Debian (while I guess it means a lot for Ubuntu, for example). I actually think

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Joey Hess
Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: I actually think having no default desktop would be just fine, instead having the current 3-4 desktop installation media. Then anyone can pick the DE she likes. I recently spent some time installing community computer labs in rural Brazil. Internet bandwidth was nearly

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 08, Joey Hess jo...@debian.org wrote: I recently spent some time installing community computer labs in rural Brazil. Internet bandwidth was nearly nonexistant[1], so if you were I am sure that we could have a great competition for finding potential users with even crappier connectivity

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: If the xfce iso didn't exist, people in these situtations would not be able to install a usable Debian system. I see a solution that would satisfy everybody: whoever is interested in supporting this kind of situations could build CD images

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Axel Wagner
Hi, Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org writes: The default has no bearing whatsoever on whether well-connected users can or can't install one of the shiny desktops if they so choose. The default has no bearing whatsoever on whether un-connected users can or can't install one of the more

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
On 08/08/2014 12:00 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Aug 08, Joey Hess jo...@debian.org wrote: I recently spent some time installing community computer labs in rural Brazil. Internet bandwidth was nearly nonexistant[1], so if you were I am sure that we could have a great competition for finding

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Andrew Kelley
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz ti...@acaia.ca wrote: On 08/08/2014 12:00 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: I see a solution that would satisfy everybody: whoever is interested in supporting this kind of situations could build CD images appropriate for them, and everybody else

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Cameron Norman
El vie, 8 de ago 2014 a las 9:00 , Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it escribió: On Aug 08, Joey Hess jo...@debian.org wrote: I recently spent some time installing community computer labs in rural Brazil. Internet bandwidth was nearly nonexistant[1], so if you were I am sure that we could have a

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fri, 08 Aug 2014, Marco d'Itri wrote: of the third world can continue using a modern desktop as usual. As if lxde, xfce, mate is not modern? Only Gnome3? Come down from your horse. Norbert PREINING, Norbert

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
On 08/08/2014 01:50 PM, Andrew Kelley wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz ti...@acaia.ca wrote: On 08/08/2014 12:00 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: I see a solution that would satisfy everybody: whoever is interested in supporting this kind of situations could build CD

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140808_1050-0700, Andrew Kelley wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz ti...@acaia.ca wrote: On 08/08/2014 12:00 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: I see a solution that would satisfy everybody: whoever is interested in supporting this kind of situations could build CD