On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 10:24:58PM +0100, Wolfgang Schweer wrote: > > I'm not sure why you advocate only documenting this in the manual, > > instead of changing the default… > The default desktop is set as kernel command line param. This is done > when the ISO image is generated (see e.g. CONF-stretch-usbstick.sh for > the BD ISO image). So no way to change it now. huh, we can regenerate the ISO! > In Oslo we discussed about what should be the default desktop (being > MATE at that time); iirc we decided to keep KDE as default but to > recommend LXDE for LTSP clients. On the mailing lists there was feedback > (also after the Stretch release) that LXDE was well suited for LTSP. So > it's somehow known... well, whatever we decided anywhere, if there are new information, we might need to change our decision. It seems to me that we can keep KDE as default for workstations and standalone, and switch to LXDE for LTSP clients, can't we? > > maybe we can use the minidebconf in hamburg to get usuable > > debian-edu-buster images build on debian.org infrastructure… > sounds good. there's no blocker bug anymore, it "just has to be done" on the debian-cd side :) > > again: my suggestion was to change the default because KDE is broken. I > > really dont get why you suggest to keep KDE and then to document that > > people should not use it. > KDE works quite well for profiles 'Standalone', 'Roaming-Workstation' > and 'Workstation'. Just for LTSP clients a decent desktop like KDE (or > GNOME) isn't really suited. see above :) -- cheers, Holger
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