"I believe we could do something along these lines: 1. Provide an openbox-minimal and an openbox entry. 2. openbox minimal would do what openbox does right now 3. define a %openbox-recommended-packages list that makes most of it work 4. the openbox entry would append the %openbox-recommended-packages to the package list."
I like this. It sounds similar to what OpenBSD does after an X install, in that you're given a windows manager that only has a functioning xterm and working system functionality from the menu: shutdown, restart, etc. Scott scmguru - irc.freenode.net Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, February 7, 2020 9:29 AM, Gábor Boskovits <boskov...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Scott C. MacCallum via Bug reports for GNU Guix bug-guix@gnu.org ezt > írta (időpont: 2020. febr. 6., Cs, 22:38): > > > "I'd like to close your other bugs (39469 to 39474) as I think they all > > have the same root cause. I'll rename this one Do you agree?" > > I agree. And I'll stop submitting bugs for the other broken menu items. :) > > Scott > > scmguru - irc.freenode.net > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > On Thursday, February 6, 2020 4:23 PM, Julien Lepiller jul...@lepiller.eu > > wrote: > > > > > Le 6 février 2020 16:12:38 GMT-05:00, "Scott C. MacCallum" > > > smaccal...@protonmail.com a écrit : > > > Please make sure to keep debbugs in CC :) > > > > > > > > To be fair, if you installed only the openbox environment, none of > > > > > the items in the menu would work > > > > > > > > I didn't install just an Openbox environment, I installed all of the > > > > available desktop environments. > > > > > > I understand, and the other environments brought other packages with > > > them, which made some of the menu items work. > > > > > > > > However, this is not a guix-specific bug, and as an openbox user, I > > > > > don't expect to have all of these items available. > > > > > > > > Perhaps it's not an Guix-specific bug but that's certainly not the case > > > > with other distros. It was my understanding that Guix wanted to reach > > > > the widest audience possible, including those not technically inclined. > > > > > > OK, though I certainly got locked out of my initial installation on arch > > > linux because I forgot to add xterm for instance, and I'm sure all of > > > these items don't work ootb on debian or other distros. > > > Maybe having openbox as an initial choice in the installer is a bad idea, > > > or the installer could add these packages. We could also change the > > > openbox package to restrict the quantity of default menu entries to some > > > minimum. > > I believe we could do something along these lines: > > 1. Provide an openbox-minimal and an openbox entry. > 2. openbox minimal would do what openbox does right now > 3. define a %openbox-recommended-packages list that makes most of it work > 4. the openbox entry would append the %openbox-recommended-packages to > the package list. > > It needs more thought, but I believe this would improve the situation, > and having this list would ease > setup not only on install. Wdyt? > > > > > I'd like to close your other bugs (39469 to 39474) as I think they all > > > have the same root cause. I'll rename this one Do you agree? > > > > > > > > I don't really see how to improve the situation, do you have a > > > > > suggestion? > > > > > > > > I actually don't use Openbox as my default desktop environment. I was > > > > thinking about others. > > > > Scott > > > > scmguru - irc.freenode.net > > > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > > > On Thursday, February 6, 2020 4:03 PM, Julien Lepiller > > > > jul...@lepiller.eu wrote: > > > > > > > > > Le 6 février 2020 15:39:36 GMT-05:00, "Scott C. MacCallum via Bug > > > > > reports for GNU Guix" bug-guix@gnu.org a écrit : > > > > > > > > > > > After the installation of all the available desktop environments, > > > > > > in > > > > > > > > > > > Openbox from the Accessories menu Calculator does not load. > > > > > > Scott > > > > > > scmguru - irc.freenode.net > > > > > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > > > > > > > > > To be fair, if you installed only the openbox environment, none of > > > > > the items in the menu would work. However, this is not a guix-specific > > > > > bug, and as an openbox user, I don't expect to have all of these items > > > > > available. The menu is static and the same in all distros. You're > > > > > supposed to configure it yourself, which makes it not very user > > > > > friendly, but that's how it works. > > > > > I don't really see how to improve the situation, do you have a > > > > > suggestion? > > Best regards, > g_bor > > ---------------------- > > OpenPGP Key Fingerprint: 7988:3B9F:7D6A:4DBF:3719:0367:2506:A96C:CF63:0B21