On Sat, 2014-04-05 at 18:18 +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 07:57:50PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Could you please sum up those discussions and explain what kind of > > changes you would consider to be productive? > > I can sum up the discussions that were had last time on debian-devel for > you, at least as I remember them. > > * XFCE fits on one installation CD, which is relevant for those people > who have slow or expensive Internet access (which is many parts of the > developing world). The older machines which may be more likely to be > in use in those areas may not have a DVD drive, or downloading 4 GB > for a DVD may be prohibitive in time or cost. > * It works better on older and less powerful machines[0]. Those are good arguments for providing an Xfce CD - as we have done in previous releases - but not that it should be the recommended installation image in general. [...] > * There were concerns about accessibility support, "particularly for the > blind"[2]. [...] Which is unfortunately quite bad in most free graphical desktop environments. Is it actually a strength of Xfce? I didn't think it was. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do.
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