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Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package



2006/4/14, Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>:
> > I am sure this has been discussed many times, but one thing i would
> > really like to see in tasksel is:
>
>
> Many many times, yes..:-)
>
> Joey often raised an argument about novice users likely to be confused
> by a KDE/Gnome choice, not knowing the difference between both.
>
> Your suggestion adds an interesting possibility in that matter with
> the "I don't know" choice. Seems worth discussing it, imho.
>
> I would vote against too much choices if we go this way,
> though. Probably if the multiple desktop environments suggestion is
> implemented, it should be restricted to four choices:
>
> -"I dont know"
> -KDE
> -Gnome
> -Light desktop

other idea:

[x] Full Desktop (recommended)
      [x] GNOME
      [ ]  KDE
[ ] Light Desktop (old machines)
      [ ] XFCE
      [ ] Icewm
      [ ] ...
[ ] Select manual packages

>
> Offering too many choices would add much confusion and we have to
> remember that tasks are mostly targeted at novice users
>
>
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