Hi, Am 28. Februar 2026 23:20:30 MEZ schrieb Pascal Hambourg <[email protected]>: >On 28/02/2026 at 17:03, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> Holger Wansing <[email protected]> (2026-02-28): >>> I wonder why we have this hierarchical structure for the desktops at all ??? > >Is it only visual or also functional in any way ?
It's mostly a visual topic. But we don't loose much functionality, if we drop that. That is: if you choose only the "Debian desktop environment", you get the default desktop for your architecture. In my proposal you have to choose manually which desktop you want. However, if the machine you are installing has enough RAM and free harddisk space (2G + 5G), the default desktop for your arch (GNOME in most cases ATM) will be pre-selected anyway when calling tasksel. I have tested, that this still works after my proposed changings. >>> And if we could switch from the current >> […] >>> to something like > >[Remove "Debian desktop environment" entry and append "desktop" to other >desktop task descriptions] > >> I'm not sure that's a good idea, it makes it much harder to spot/ignore >> desktop stuff and focus on critical things like whether to install an >> SSH server… Especially after the extra additions to the list of desktops… > >True, but isn't it worth getting rid of endless users' confusion about what >the "Debian desktop environment" task actually does ? +1 Maybe we could add an "empty" line (like "---") after the desktop entries, to visually separate the desktops from the rest? Holger -- Sent from /e/ OS on Fairphone3
