Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] availability of alternate DEs

2018-10-07 Thread Len Ovens
On Sun, 7 Oct 2018, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 15:27:25 -0400, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: Most DE's are designed not to conflict with any other DE Yesno :D, for some more or less exceptional cases, regarding so called major DEs, you and I know better :p. A "conflict" might no

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] availability of alternate DEs

2018-10-07 Thread lukefromdc
The external green drive issue is really a firmware bug, with that 4 second spindown interval that gradually kills the drive unless it is run under very limited circumstances. I would not support removing GVFS from MATE, Cinnamon, or GNOME simply to crutch this situation. The correct fix would be

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] availability of alternate DEs

2018-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 22:22:08 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >let alone of e.g. panels that might be replaced after using a file >manager of another desktop environment. this should read panels _and wallpapers_ ;) -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify setting

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] availability of alternate DEs

2018-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2018-10-07 at 15:48 -0400, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: > The main issue I have seen is having to tweak startup prograns from a > session's > control panel to keep multiple copies of the desktop icons from being > displayed > by multiple file managers. I have MATE, GNOME, and Cinnamon i

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] availability of alternate DEs

2018-10-07 Thread lukefromdc
The main issue I have seen is having to tweak startup prograns from a session's control panel to keep multiple copies of the desktop icons from being displayed by multiple file managers. I have MATE, GNOME, and Cinnamon installed and can configure any one of them at a time to properly show the des

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] availability of alternate DEs

2018-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 21:42:36 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >I would reduce it to switching between window mangers, never does cause >an issue Oops, my apologies, even this isn't true :D. -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: http

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] availability of alternate DEs

2018-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 15:27:25 -0400, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: >Most DE's are designed not to conflict with any other DE Yesno :D, for some more or less exceptional cases, regarding so called major DEs, you and I know better :p. A "conflict" might not be the right term for some issues, users c

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] availability of alternate DEs

2018-10-07 Thread lukefromdc
I have never heard of a metapackage for a DE that removes another DE, they just install the selected DE in addition. Most DE's are designed not to conflict with any other DE, which is why forks of GNOME such as Cinnamon and MATE rename every forked package. Metapackages in Debian install packages

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] availability of alternate DEs

2018-10-07 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
That’s what would be great to see. Have you used centos? In that installer you can choose what packages such as DEs to install. What Ubuntu has should do the same Sent from my iPhone > On 07 Oct 2018, at 18:01, Len Ovens wrote: > >> On Sun, 7 Oct 2018, jaquil...@eagleeyet.net wrote: >> >> I

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] availability of alternate DEs

2018-10-07 Thread Len Ovens
On Sun, 7 Oct 2018, jaquil...@eagleeyet.net wrote: I do like this direction things are going to be fair with the below suggestion. Just some food for thought. Let us say i install normal ubuntu. if i install the meta package for kde version of studio obviously the gnome stuff will be removed