Re: default desktop

[Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>]

On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 12:07 PM Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
> Re-opening the question of the default desktop just a bit to provide
> updated information: the current gnome-with-wayland default is a concern
> for accessibility. Accessibility on Wayland has a lot of glitches in
> all kinds of places, and nobody is working on fixing them yet. Also,
> MATE+Compiz now provides very nice zoom support.

Sorry: I have lots of questions.

Could you rephrase this email and provide more context?

Are you proposing to change Debian's default desktop or just the
default desktop for accessibility? If it's just for accessibility,
could you explain more about how users opt in to that and what its
effects are? Sorry I don't install Debian very often and I've not
tried doing it with accessibility enabled.

Could you point to issues with accessibility using GNOME on Wayland?

You can force disable GNOME on Wayland completely by setting
WaylandEnable=false in /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf

I assume MATE isn't defaulting to using Compiz now? If so, it seems
simpler to just disable Wayland for accessible users than installing
MATE and switching to Compiz?

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha