Re: XFCE desktop option
[Steven Chamberlain]
> Hi!
>
> I was curious why Debian Edu didn't support an XFCE desktop.
Only because we lack manpower. No-one have worked on it so far. :)
Perhaps you are willing to maintain it? Ie take responsibility for
the desktop-xfce file and regularly test the different profiles with
desktop=xfce to verfiy that they are working as they should?
> I certainly like it - I think it is functional and simple, yet
> lightweight - and if this graph is correct it would seem to be close
> to KDE4 in popularity now:
>
> http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=gnome-shell+plasma-desktop+xfce4+lxde-core&show_installed=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1
Wow, did not know it was that popular. It is a lot more popular than
LXDE. Look like something we should support in Wheezy.
> I recall a couple of things were changed recently in tasksel for XFCE:
>
> * network-manager-gnome, instead of wicd
> * post-wheezy: evince-gtk, instead of epdfview
>
>
> I think the xfce4-goodies are worth having, for a more 'complete'
> desktop environment, at the expense of ~40 MiB uncompressed (unless you
> are *really* constrained for space).
>
> Some of tasksel's Recommends for xfce would be already included by the
> xfce4-goodies metapackage (xfce4-terminal, mousepad) or the xfce4 core
> package (xfce4-mixer, orage).
>
> Other XFCE- or GTK2-specific packages currently recommended by tasksel
> are: xfprint4, system-config-printer, xfce4-power-manager,
> libreoffice-gtk, tango-icon-theme, dbus-x11:
>
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=tasksel/tasksel.git;a=blob;f=debian/control;h=628f47da9db203f22a39a90c905d0a2485df7e00;hb=d481e5b565b8454f442ced4f7ff48f4502881ed2#l201
>
> The rest is probably covered by generic Debian Edu desktop tasks.
I'll add these to the desktop-xfce task.
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen
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