On Tuesday 23 August 2005 08:18, Christian Perrier wrote: > I'm afraid I fail to understand this. Up to now, I've not seen the new > tasksel (with splitted KDE/Gnome) in action, so that's probably why I > can't really figure out. > > I saw the new changes as the longstanding request (which you were not > fond of) to offer choice between KDE and Gnomeas a kind of > "additionnal" tasks to the "base" desktop task. I had hoped this would be implemented as well, especially after the result of the discussion we had at debconf. > Your explanations seem to imply that this doesn't actually work that > way and thus users still do not have the choice between > KDE/Gnome/Both. Am I right? [...] > I basically agree here (even though I have personnally chosen > Thunderbird as supported software in our company). However, I keep > thinking we should provide some "standard" MUA as part of Debian > desktop installs rather than leave this to users who will have hard > times chosing between Evolution, KMail and/or Thunderbird. > > OTOH, one cas consider that both Gnome and KDE (the desktops which > *will* be chosen by low-skilled users) already have their "standard" > MUA and we don't need to provide another one by default. Yes, please don't bloat the default system any more than necessary. I see some added value for firefox as it is very well known and for some websites one browser will work better than an other. But having multiple MUA's seems redundant.
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