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Bug#805305: tasksel: Please consider adding GNOME Flashback as a desktop choice



Hi Nicoo!

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 02:38:06AM +0100, nicoo wrote:
> Apologies for the *incredibly late* reply, and thanks for your interest in
> contributing to tasksel :)

No problem! I am still interested in this, so thanks for replying!

Since 2015, gnome-flashback got even better, and is still actively developed.

> > I consider that GNOME Flashback is a better choice for the top list as
> > compared to i.e. MATE or Cinnamon, as it has a small codebase, is actively
> > developed, uses modern GNOME technologies and is familiar for users of
> > previous Debian versions.
>
> That sounds like all sorts of really good reasons to include it.
> However, if we start ordering the list by popularity or perceived relevance,
> I forsee lots to bruised feelings when bumping flashback to the top  ;)

That is also absolutely not a problem for me! I don't think my original
ordering was such because I wanted to move it to top, I was probably trying
to group GNOME-based desktops together.

> I took the liberty of rebasing your patch (so it applies to the current
> source tree), moving flashback to the bottom, and refactoring the 2 GNOME
> tasks:
>
>   https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/tasksel/-/merge_requests/14
>
> I'd however appreciate some feedback from the rest of the d-i team,
> before merging this.

Sure thing! I left some more comments for things that I didn't notice from
the first quick look.

--
Dmitry Shachnev

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