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Re: Are follow-up steps for Lomiri desktop required?



[ cc += Guido Günther ]

Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> (2025-05-26):
> Combining this and the Phosh MR[1] ends up looking like this (1024x768):
> 
>   https://openqa.debian.net/tests/399843#step/choose_software/1
> 
> Lomiri currently appears twice, so that is 3 new entries with Phosh.
> 
> BTW The descriptions for the 2 Lomiri tasks need to be fixed, in order
> to distinguish between the `desktop` and `tablet` variants, unless we
> decided to only offer one of those via tasksel.

Thanks. I think I'd like to have a single entry to start with, maybe the
desktop variant? I can understand how hard targeting this or that bit of
hardware can be, but I would really expect a desktop environment to have
components to figure that out at runtime, instead of having two different
sets of packages.

(Thinking out loud, maybe it'd be feasible to skip one of them from d-i,
but offer it when tasksel runs interactively — not from pkgsel —, so that
users can switch from say task-lomiri-desktop to task-lomiri-tablet by
running tasksel after the install? But if that's mainly about requiring
fewer packages, as opposed to different core components, I'd think that
reinforces my initial assessment: propose Lomiri for desktop, leaving it
up to tablet users to either skip desktop entirely, then installing the
-tablet task afterwards, or to buy the whole desktop and call it a day?)


I haven't looked at either MRs at the moment, but I think I'd like to
have the newest additions at the bottom of the desktop (kinda-sub)list,
instead of having them pop up at some (seemingly) random locations in the
existing, non-sorted list. I'd think that's only a matter of adjusting
some priority/score/relevance integer that I vaguely remember, though, so
that should be on the easy side of things.


Thoughts on both topics? (The first one might be a hard one, the second
one should be mostly cosmetics?)


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

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