Re: default desktop

[Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>]

On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 8:36 AM Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
> > Ok, then you need to discuss this with the rest of the Debian GNOME
> > team. I suggest the debian-gtk-gnome list. (And I think it would have
> > been more polite to talk to them before talking to the tasksel team.)
> >
> > It's a bit late to be talking about reverting Wayland by default for
> > everyone since this has been enabled for Testing since soon after the
> > Stretch release.
>
> Well, actually, personally I realized that gnome switched to wayland in
> Debian only recently.  I believe most of debian-accessibility@ is in the
> same situation, so this is mostly untested, and for instance
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/2019/01/msg00014.html
> needs to be fixed to have gtk2 applications accessible.
>
> As you say, it's now too late for doing much changes in gnome anyway.

I said only "a bit late", but there is still time to make this change
if necessary. If there are significant problems with GNOME on Wayland
that the Debian GNOME team may have been unaware of, please let them
know promptly.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha