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Bug#693397: marked as done (task-desktop: default desktop in Wheezy)

Your message dated Fri, 16 Nov 2012 07:36:01 +0100
with message-id <20121116063601.GD22520@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org>
and subject line Re: Bug#693397: task-desktop: default desktop in Wheezy
has caused the Debian Bug report #693397,
regarding task-desktop: default desktop in Wheezy
to be marked as done.

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: task-desktop
Version: 3.14
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainers,
please clarify what desktop environment will be the default in Debian Wheezy.

The toggling of a "switch default desktop task to xfce" commit in the Git repo
is somewhat confusing: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=tasksel/tasksel.git

// Since the GNOME project changed its goals to interface simplification
// targeted for touchscreens / tablet PCs, which resulted in reducing of GUI
// customization features & average usability, I support the transition
// from GNOME 3 to anything else (not sure about KDE 4).
//
// The last haven in GNOME 3 for GNOME 2 ex-users was the "classic / fallback"
// mode, which is going to be removed in the near future:
// GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode -- https://lwn.net/Articles/523774/
//
// IMHO, GNOME 3 is not so stable & usable
// (as GNOME 2 was; not sure about its fork called MATE),
// therefore it doesn't fit well in Debian;
// the monstrosity of GNOME 3 as a Debian Wheezy default desktop
// on the new installation & upgrades (from Squeeze's GNOME 2)
// will result in a significant amount of user dissatisfaction & complaints.
//
// BTW, as for now, I use LXDE, but Xfce is still better than GNOME 3 ;)



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages task-desktop depends on:
ii  desktop-base            7.0.3
ii  menu                    2.1.46
ii  tasksel                 3.14
ii  xorg                    1:7.7+1
ii  xserver-xorg-input-all  1:7.7+1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-all  1:7.7+1

Versions of packages task-desktop recommends:
ii  alsa-base          1.0.25+2+nmu2
ii  alsa-utils         1.0.25-3
ii  anacron            2.3-19
ii  avahi-daemon       0.6.31-1
ii  eject              2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-11
ii  libgl1-mesa-dri    8.0.4-2
ii  libnss-mdns        0.10-3.2
ii  pm-utils           1.4.1-9
ii  task-lxde-desktop  3.14
ii  xdg-utils          1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-6

task-desktop suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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--- Begin Message --- 
Quoting Bob Bib (bobbibmpn@mail.ru):
> Package: task-desktop
> Version: 3.14
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainers,
> please clarify what desktop environment will be the default in Debian Wheezy.
> 
> The toggling of a "switch default desktop task to xfce" commit in the Git repo
> is somewhat confusing: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=tasksel/tasksel.git

The toggling makes it easy to understand: as soon as we had a fix
meant for wheezy, the switch to Xfce has been reverted and the fix
released with a default desktop being GNOME.

So, it should be obvious that wheezy will have GNOME as default.

There is no bug here....

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