On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Kaj Ailomaa <zeque...@mousike.me> wrote:
> # Supporting multiple Desktop Environments > > There has long been talk about us possibly supporting multiple desktop > environments. Doing so, we would use existing DE metas, and just add our > own session, menu, and artwork. The desktop environments in question > would be unity, gnome, kde, xfce and lxde. > > There are two ways we can do this: > * base our desktop environments on flavor DE metas such as > ubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop, etc, > * or we base on the vanilla DE metas, such as xfce4 (not sure how that > works with unity though) > > So, let's discuss the pros and cons with selecting one over the other. > Perhaps choice one is better for some DEs, and choice two better for > others? > I think one of the advantages for us to use for instance xubuntu-desktop is that the possibilities for support is much greater. If it's a vanilla Xubuntu desktop you would have all the xubuntu community to help out with DE related questions. Sure, with a plain Xfce DE we could say that we would have all the xfce-community to help out with support but I think it's easier to provide closer support within the *buntu sphere. /Jimmy
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