Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop
On ven., 2014-08-08 at 18:38 -0700, Paul C. Bryan wrote: With all due respect to XFCE, I'd hate the interpretation to be along the lines of, Oh, Debian state of the art desktop environment feels something like Windows, circa 2000. But, XFCE's lightweight. It's meant to lack such fancy features. I'm unsure what you mean by that. We don't do specific efforts to tune Xfce appearance (that's not really our priority indeed), but you might want to take a look at Xubuntu customization if eye candy is what interest you. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop
On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 03:52:46PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 08 Aug 2014 11:14:07 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On jeu., 2014-08-07 at 23:57 +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: Hi Debian, About the decision itself, as Debian Xfce main maintainer, I honestly don't really care. I don't think the default desktop matters that much on Debian (while I guess it means a lot for Ubuntu, for example). I actually think having no default desktop would be just fine, instead having the current 3-4 desktop installation media. Then anyone can pick the DE she likes. (...) I really (and still) like the idea of having no default desktop at all and let the users decide by themselves if they even want to get a DE when performing a DVD based installation. Greetings, Give them a choice of the main 3 or 4 with thumbnails of each at default view with short explanation: ie Gnome-Shell for modern computers with 3D capability: XFce4 for older computers with low memory and/or older video cards not capable of playing advanced graphical games etc., Then direct each to appropriate DVD/CD/Netinstall image to download or sources list to add. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140809130807.GA2394@Jessie
Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop
On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 09:08:07 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 03:52:46PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 08 Aug 2014 11:14:07 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On jeu., 2014-08-07 at 23:57 +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: Hi Debian, About the decision itself, as Debian Xfce main maintainer, I honestly don't really care. I don't think the default desktop matters that much on Debian (while I guess it means a lot for Ubuntu, for example). I actually think having no default desktop would be just fine, instead having the current 3-4 desktop installation media. Then anyone can pick the DE she likes. (...) I really (and still) like the idea of having no default desktop at all and let the users decide by themselves if they even want to get a DE when performing a DVD based installation. Give them a choice of the main 3 or 4 with thumbnails of each at default view with short explanation: ie Gnome-Shell for modern computers with 3D capability: XFce4 for older computers with low memory and/or older video cards not capable of playing advanced graphical games etc., Then direct each to appropriate DVD/CD/Netinstall image to download or sources list to add. The issue here is that once the user has downloaded a DVD, what's the DE the installer should go with when choosing an automated/basic install. And I still think the installer has to full stop at this point and ask the user what is what he/she wants; that's, IMO, the fairest proceeding possible. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/pan.2014.08.09.13.18...@gmail.com
