Hi On Tuesday 26 September 2006 11:12 Christoph Haas wrote: > I have tried the new Etch installer last weekend and I'm impressed. The > installation works perfectly well and the graphical installer - while it > doesn't add much value IMHO to the dialog based installer - looks nice and > will surely be liked by many users. Kudos to the installer team. second that! > I chose to install the "Desktop" task when tasksel asked me. And I ended up > with a Gnome desktop. Since Gnome is not really my favorite desktop > manager I deinstalled Gnome (probably leaving a lot of Gnome cruft on the > system) and installed KDE through apt-get. I wondered why Debian installed > Gnome as a default and does not even offer the choice between - say - > Xfce, Gnome and KDE during the installation. I just didn't expect Gnome. me too =( And seeing GNOME only was the main disappointing thing in the d-i: I was happy to see X11, GNOME and KDE after I've installed Potato, because it allowed me to learn many ways to do things. [...] > Joey Hess argued that users may not know what KDE and Gnome are and just > expect a working desktop. Opinions on > http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/tasksel/faq.html I wouldn't care so much about unexeperienced users in favour of experienced ones. I believe that the latter give back more to Debian. > I know that tasksel tries to keep things simple. But I want to question the > way the desktop installation is handled. So I'd like to hear a few > opinions on how happy other people are with that choice. > > Currently the way to install KDE is to provide the > option "tasksel/first=kde-desktop" when booting the Etch installer CD. No > user will guess that. that's really cool to know after I've completely reinstalled the whole bunch of kde packages =) > My 2¢ > Christoph -- BR. Alexander 'zowers' Petrov. jabber:zowers@jabber.ru icq:69694782 http://zowers.googlepages.com/ mailto:zowers@gmail.com
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