Re: Debian default desktop environment

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2014-04-04 11:42 GMT-03:00 Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>:

And can I pass my granddad's phone call on to you when he is stuck
choosing among names that are absolutely obscure to him like "GNOME",
"Xfce", and "KDE"?

Not giving the user a taste of the options, well... Yes, I agree, it's pretty hard to solve it this way.

In addition to that, it's very important for us to understand that an average user (someone that just surfs the internet ou work with text editors) don't separate/discriminate the OS from the desktop environment. On Wheezy, for example, they would think that Debian "is" Gnome 3, because it is included in the whole default installation package.

2014-04-04 11:42 GMT-03:00 Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>:

On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 02:52:41PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> We go over the same ground over and over. I'm increasingly in favour of *no*
> default. You must pick one from a list on install. Randomize the list if
> necessary.

And can I pass my granddad's phone call on to you when he is stuck
choosing among names that are absolutely obscure to him like "GNOME",
"Xfce", and "KDE"?

We are software integrators, making default choices is what we do.

We can't pass the bucket down to our users.

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