On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 16:19 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 04:42:19PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > 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"? > > No, just say pick a random one. Surely they'll all be entirely appropriate > for your grandad by the time we release jessie ;) Well, one might argue that DEs are either a suitable pick for our users or they are not and that the actual choice from the "suitable" set is therefore irrelevant. I would like to see the "No default" scheme implemented in such a way that users are shown a picture of the desktop + one/two sentences about the DEs. That way the user would be actually more likely to pick a DE (s)he likes. But then I also believe that Gnome 3 is, like XFCE, a perfectly reasonable choice and would be perfectly happy with Gnome 3. One thing I dislike about switching the default DE is that it puts a lot of people active in support in a position in which they might not actually be as familiar with the DE they will end up supporting most frequently simply by having learned a different "default" one a few generations back. The information flow from experienced users to new users is thereby slightly hampered. -- Wolodja <debian@babilen5.org> 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC
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