On 10/05/2018 07:35 PM, Len Ovens wrote: > On Fri, 5 Oct 2018, Ross Gammon wrote: > >> Is it not possible to install the kubuntu metapackage (or one of them) >> on a Ubuntu Studio install and then chose the DE when logging in? >> >> If that was possible, then we could add a new metapackage to our >> ubuntustudio seeds that could be optionally installed, and then switch >> the seeds to that metapackage once we are happy. > > Probably some of us are just hard of thinking :) That would increase the > ISO size by the size of the plasma meta, though the resulting ISO would > probably still fit on a DVD (if those are still a thing). DL time would > go up yet a again. It would, at this point, be a next cycle thing of > course. We would need at least an optional -plasma-desktop package, but > more realistically we would need to split -default-settings into > -default-setting and -xfce-desktop (replace "desktop" with "settings" if > needed). > > I guess it is possible for the plasma part to be dl and install during > ISO install rather than included on the ISO. So there might be a default > DE on the ISO, but at install time a different DE could be selected. I > do not know how to do that, but the installer already DL and installes > non-free packages so there must be a way.
I think we could add to our ubuntustudio-live ubiquity plugin to add the plasma meta as an option at install time. We already use that to select/deselect which metas & packages to install. -- 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
