On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 10:24 -0400, Mike Holstein wrote: > Ralph, im going to assume a question here. that question would be... > "will the ubuntustudio metapackages *require* XFCE?" > theres one metapackage right now called ubuntustudio-desktop. that > would be the one that would pull XFCE in, and switch DE's. theres no > reason why the others should do that, or need to do that, and thats a > very valid point that i will keep in mind as we move forward. this > question you posed also gave me a great idea. maybe we can just take > the current ubuntustudio-desktop (with gnome2), leave it as-is (so > there is no maintenance) rename it ubuntustudio-desktop-gnome, and > leave that in place as long as gnome2 is around. in that way, a user > could install the current ubuntu vanilla, and get switched to the good > 'ol gnome current setup that we all know and love by running sudo > apt-get install ubuntustudio-destkop-gnome. this package could be > around as long as ubuntu has gnome2 in the repo. i will ask how > challenging that could be to implement that, unless you would like to > take that on Ralph? it would be great if you could help us > constructively resolve some of these issues users are having with this > UI switch.
A good idea to provide 2 different desktop meta packages, if somebody has the time and knowledge to maintain the GNOME package. I might have some time to contribute some work, but I guess not the knowledge to help here. Resp. how could I (and perhaps other people) contribute something regarding to the DE issue? Ralf -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
