Re: Again about the KDE/Gnome tasks
Christian Perrier wrote:
This seems to be somethign that our users are requesting in some way
(from the reviews I've seen of sarge and sarge installer).
ACK.
And I am afraid, that this discussion is lost in technical details
without targeting usability.
tasksel should reflect the hierarchical structure of tasks, e.g.
desktop
- Gnome
- KDE
- internet
- mail
- kmail
- thunderbird
- web
- mozilla
- konqueror
- office
- koffice
- Ooffice
- Goffice
- games
- multimedia
- others
The user should than be able to choose between
- minimum
- default
- all
- customized
at each node of the tree, ideally by clicking on checkboxes.
E.g. I would choose
desktop -> customized
KDM
Gnome -> default
KDE -> customized
lang -> en, de, it, es
Games -> minimum (= no games)
Office -> customize
koffice -> all
Ooffice -> all
Goffice -> all
Isn't this the usual way 'other' environments (Suse, Fedora, Win ...)
provide?
Obviously the time is too short until release of etch.
More or less all "advanced users" are requesting for it: these users
know what is the difference between the two major desktop environments
and allowing them to choose among both is worth it. Most of them rant
about the disk space "wasting" done by installing all the stuff.
- waste of human installation time
- waste of human time to remove packages afterwards
(e.g. the games in my case)
- waste of human time to search packages, install, reconfigure
- waste of network resources
When it comes at low skilled users, we actually choose for them
anyway: the graphical display manager by default is GDM...and default
sessions are Gnome sessions. So, from the end user point of view,
Debian installs Gnome..:-)
IMHO KDE is more convenient for low skilled users.
Helmut Wollmersdorfer
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