On Monday 24 October 2005 21:36, Pedro M (Morphix User) wrote: > I would prefer an Ncurses screen in Debian where I could select: That would be tasksel > Install desktop environment ?? yes /no which does this already > What desktop to install ? Gnome / KDE / other (specify). Now possible (since tasksel 2.30), though it will install both if they are both available by default. Specifically (from the 2.30 changelog): ... * Split out kde and gnome stuff from desktop into kde-desktop and gnome-desktop. * Both depend on the main desktop task (so both will be installed if available when the desktop task is selected), and both are hidden since a user should not need to choose between them. * This allows CDs to leave off either KDE or Gnome (or both!) and still get a working desktop task. * It also allows derivitives to more easily choose to include only one of the environments (via preseeding or by unhiding the tasks). ... > If no Gnome / KDE or other wide used desktop, Debian would look for > packages using apt-get or similar command (ie. fluxbox ). yep, if desktop task is not installed this is what happens currently > The user could select important properties, like display-properties > using this Ncurses sytem. would belong to xserver-org package, which already does this if I recall correctly? desktop-profiles concerns itself with a completely different problem: the (conditional) activation and stacking of profiles (i.e configuration and/or data sets) for the different desktop environments in a standard way. This allows things like - decopple the debian configuration setup for the various DE's from the actual DE packages. This will allow Debian as a whole to explore alternative approaches to the default desktop setup in parallel (even on the same machine). - allows CDD's/admin's to add their own configuration changes on top of the Debian one's, to better adapt the default debian desktop for specific purposes, and allow those to be combined. (e.g. Debian-edu has a kde profile that set's up the desktop for use in a debian-edu network, which might be stacked on top of a debian-junior profile (currently unexisting) that sets up the DE for kids that can't read yet in a kindergarten class) - allows different configurations for different users (e.g. students vs. teachers for debian-edu) -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) 1. Encrypted mail preferred (GPG KeyID: 0x86624ABB) 2. Plain-text mail recommended since I move html and double format mails to a low priority folder (they're mainly spam)
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