Re: KDE for Etch

[Curt Howland <Howland@priss.com>]

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On Thursday 08 November 2007, Nate Bargmann was heard to say:
> I had bought DVD ISOs from a 3rd party and don't recall a choice of
> DE.

When I first asked about this, the reasoning for putting Gnome and Kde 
on different CDs was because they each were too big to put on the 
same CD.

This is not true of the DVD.

But this means that there is even less of a hint what "desktop" is 
going to be installed when "desktop" is selected. At the same time, 
there is less excuse for not putting additional options into tasksel.

It all comes down to the use of the word "desktop" without any 
indication of what that desktop it is.

If I could wave my magic wand, the CD would be -gnome instead of 
nothing, to match the other CDs, and the DVD would have at least 
desktop-Gnome, desktop-Kde and desktop-minimal.

But oh well, I'm not a developer. Just a user. And a nearly 100% 
satisfied one at that. Maybe that's what makes this invisible default 
so frustrating, Debian is so very good in most other ways.

Curt-

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