On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 18:31:52 +0200 Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org> wrote: > On 24/10/13 at 16:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > This goes back to during the wheezy release cycle. There was a > > little discussion around a change in tasksel [1], but rather too > > late in the day for the change to make sense. Now we have rather > > more time, I feel. Let's change the default desktop for > > installation to xfce. > > Cons: > > * <please fill in here> > > What's the the status of XFCE regarding accessibility? > > That was a big strengh of GNOME for a long time, though I've heard > rumors (sorry not to be more specific) that gnome-shell has some > unsolved issues in that regard, which is a problem since GNOME > classic/fallback mode is gone in 3.8. > > Even if not a strong requirement, I like the idea of an accessible > default Debian desktop. Most of the apps used on top of GNOME will continue to work with XFCE, it's not as if the underlying libraries are changing. If anything, it's *less* work to get such apps working with XFCE than it will be migrating to full GNOME integration. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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