On Mon, May 19, 2014, at 02:43 PM, Jimmy Sjölund wrote: > 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
Good point. Quite a significant one, i would say. In that case we would offer the user choices between other DE based flavors, and not just DE environments. So, that would equal to: Ubuntu Studio Xubuntu Studio Kubuntu Studio Lubuntu Studio Ubuntu Gnome Studio And, the Studio bit would be more of an overlay for these existing flavors. -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
