On 12/18/2011 04:43 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote: > This > is mostly as if I starting to try to convince to use Awesome WM as > default desktop install because I think it is more user-friendly (and it > is, for my type of use, but not for general use).
Good example indeed. If the user has enough explanations as to why it's more user-friendly, and there's a choice that can be made, then I'd be for prompting the user the choice of the WM. Also, this doesn't have to be in the default mode, it's ok if the choice is only available in expert install. I have always felt uncomfortable with d-i just launching tasksel, which only has a checkbox for "Graphical desktop environment". - Why isn't tasksel asking which window manager? - Why "graphical interface" means in fact gnome, and why it's not written in clear text? - Why is it that we are one of biggest distributions with over 3k packages, so many GDE and WM, and so few choice of what to install in d-i? Especially, there's many better alternatives to tasksel. On 12/18/2011 04:43 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote: > I do think you ought to stop to try to push your personal opinion too > hard... it is clear on this thread that most people do not agree with > you so lets go ahead and move topic. I don't think Debian's path ought to be doing *less* and removing nice functionality, just because it may confuse some of our less knowledgeable users. I'm sorry if you think I'm voicing this opinion too much, but I strongly believe Debian should be more than a toy OS for newbies (there's Ubuntu and Mint aiming at them anyway). Thomas P.S: I removed the BTS from Cc, this has nothing to do with #652275. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4eede7af.70...@goirand.fr