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Re: Debian default desktop environment



On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 10:59:39AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Iain R. Learmonth dijo [Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 09:47:58AM +0100]:
> > > So, I suggest we ship a desktop consisting of:
> > > 
> > > (... minimalist and console-based stuff ...)
> > 
> > If someone wanted to put together a meta-package and some scripts for
> > tighter integration however, I would be very happy to test it, and
> > wouldn't mind seeing an installer that uses it as default, but it
> > shouldn't be *the* default.
> 
> Anyway, when talking about power users or however you describe them, I
> doubt a task or meta-package would make much sense: We will all choose
> our programs on a much more fine-grained level. We don't want to argue
> on whether the default poweruser WM should be i3 or ratpoison...

The problem of integration is present, but now that I think about it, is
likely more of an upstream problem than a packaging problem. I guess as
more and more things use dbus, integration will become easier.

This shouldn't stop anyone putting together a meta-package though, and
if it becomes popular enough, it should maybe be added as a task. It
would have been nice to have a meta-package for XMonad or i3 that brings
you to a "usable" set up when I first started experimenting with tiling
window managers, and used that as a starting point with sane defaults
which I could then tweak later.

I don't currently have the time to do this however, so if no one is
eagerly volunteering, I will drop it until I have the time to put
something together.

Iain.

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