Hi Holger, hi all, On Mo 26 Mai 2025 23:20:14 CEST, Holger Wansing wrote:
Hi, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote (Mon, 26 May 2025 22:52:22 +0200):> 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.- What happens, if both are installed at the same time? Any harm expected? - Is Debian an OS common for touch devices (= tablets)? I personally would go with the desktop variant only, if installing both is not good. - If we do not install both in parallel (with one entry), I would change to something like - Lomiri for desktop - Lomiri for tablet to make clear to the user, what they have to expect.
The tablet / desktop installation variants of Lomiri are only different regarding the set of applications that get pulled in.
The tablet variant only pulls in Lomiri Apps (like in Ubuntu Touch) and other apps if must be. It keeps the set of installed non-Lomiri apps as minimal as possible.
The desktop variant installs much more software (like gimp, an editor, etc.).So, the tablet/desktop installation variants are not about hardware recognition etc. Lomiri is supposed to work on desktop (mouse + keyboard attached) and tablet (touch, OSK) alike and auto-recognizes its hardware profile at runtime (via Lomiri's various convergence features).
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.I think placing such new entries between "LXQt" and "web server" (at the bottom of the DE list) would be good and easy to realize.
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