Bug#1119018: tasksel: "Debian desktop environment" should default to gnome-core

[Jeremy Bicha <jeremy@bicha.net>]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 8:43 AM Paweł Starzyński
<pawelek.starzynski@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, 26 Oct 2025 10:30:13 +0100 Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:
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> > Wouldn't it be weird to leave "Debian desktop environment" selected and
> > expect no desktop environment to be installed ?
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> Maybe Polish translation is faulty, then. In Polish it states: "Podstawowe składniki środowiska graficznego Debiana", which I'd translate to "Basic elements of Debian's DE". This, I think is misleading: one thinks, that something very basic would be installed and gets full-blown GNOME.
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> > This is a separate issue, and would require e.g. a new "Minimal GNOME"
> > task, and maybe renaming "GNOME" as "Full GNOME".
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> I sincerely think, that something like this should be done. IMO recently Ubuntu made a good decision to default to more stripped down GNOME. I think that Debian should do the same and default to gnome-core, with option to install Full GNOME. I think that more minimal approach is more in tune with Debian's policy than Ubuntu.

Please open a separate bug for the specific request of adding a
minimal GNOME option ("task") to Debian's installer.

I think bug 1119018 should be closed because there is not interest now
in having the "Debian desktop environment" option change to install a
different task than how it already works. It cannot default to a
"minimal GNOME" task because that task does not exist yet. You need
the other bug fixed first.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha