On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 09:24:26PM +0100, Wolfgang Schweer wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 05:43:18PM -0000, Debian Wiki wrote: [default desktop for stretch] > > Comment: and how to decide on this? > > Good question; maybe point out that the user can decide at installation > time. yes. > It's all about choice, according to the local conditions. while true, we should also provide a good default… (too much choice is bad…) > So maybe add an explanation to the installation section of the manual > about the MATE (or whatever) choice as Debian Edu default DE for Stretch > and extend the information in the same section about kernel command line > arguments to install several DEs. yes. (Thats mentioned as TODO on the status page) > > + * is MATE really the best choice of default desktop? Maybe rather > > LXQT, which like KDE is QT-based? > We would need a new task (and a new package) lxqt-desktop in that case, > and testing... and maybe tweaking... ah, ok, I thought we had this already. As we don't have it, I'm tempted to leave it as it is, unless we really want to go ("back") to KDE/Plasma… (which I'm not convinced is sensible…) -- cheers, Holger
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature