Package: tasksel Version: 2.89 Severity: normal Hello,
Currently, the "easy" way (that is, not expert-mode install) to select e.g. the KDE desktop to be installed from a netboot image is at the boot menu to enter advanced options, then alternative desktop environments. This looks quite hairy, to say the least. People usually expect to be given the choice at installation, I've seen complaints here and there that Debian doesn't easily provide the choice. One way to do it is to simply enable the desktop question, which, yes, makes one more question during installation, but users will probably find it critical: people are usually used to either gnome or KDE, and thus want the one they're used to. And people who simply want to get X working without a complete desktop (because they're using fvwm or such) will be happy to easily select LXDE or XFCE. If they don't know, well, they can default to gnome, that's fine. Another way to do it, which may be better, is to replace the "Desktop" task with "Gnome desktop", "KDE desktop", etc. The benefit is that you can then install several desktops, for the case of a machine used by several users with different habits. Samuel -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.38 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages tasksel depends on: ii aptitude 0.6.3-3.2 terminal-based package manager (te ii cdebconf [debconf-2.0] 0.153 Debian Configuration Management Sy ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.38 Debian configuration management sy ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-6 Using libc functions for internati ii tasksel-data 2.89 Official tasks used for installati tasksel recommends no packages. tasksel suggests no packages. -- debconf information: tasksel/title: tasksel/desktop: gnome tasksel/first: Laptop, Standard system tasksel/tasks: Print server, Mail server, SSH server, Laptop -- Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> void packerFlushTheToiletFirstThingInTheMorning( void* arg ) -+- chromium's source code -+- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
