[Christoph Haas] > Currently the way to install KDE is to provide the option > "tasksel/first=kde-desktop" when booting the Etch installer CD. No > user will guess that.
Ah, is that how it is done. Thank you for the clue. It should be mentioned in the documentation available on F2-10 when the CD boot. In Debian Edu, we use KDE. The choice was mostly because of the availability of translation for the languages we care about, but also because the KDE tools were (and are) very good and well integrated. Perhaps someone should wrap up a separate set of CDs with KDE as the default desktop? It should not be too hard. Debian/Gnome and Debian/KDE could exist side by side. I can perfectly understand the d-i and debian-cd teams unwillingness to dive into the desktop selection discussion. But on the other hand one is already taking side in the discussion by keeping gnome as the default. Anyway, I believe the users of KDE need to work on improving the default KDE desktop and make it easily available (for example by making a KDE version of the Debian CD), and then let the users choose which desktop they prefer. > What I would expect at least: Rename the task from "Desktop" to > "Desktop (Gnome)" so more experienced users know what's coming up. Good idea. > What I would prefer: Tasks for Gnome, KDE and optionally Xfce (for > the less resource-fortunate). I believe it is a bad idea to increase the cognitive strain on new users by adding more options to the task lists. Most new users do not have any opinion, and should thus not be forced to choose between Gnome and KDE. They rightfully expect us to choose for them, and we should. Though I am unhappy with the Gnome choice selected by the tasksel maintainer, I agree that such choice must be made for the default installation system, to avoid confusing new users unnecessarily. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]