Hi, I don't think this needs to be taken as a 'change of default desktop', just rather a change in how install media are offered.
On 31/05/13 19:56, Michael Gilbert wrote: > Since it was rather difficult to fit gnome onto 1 cd in wheezy (and I > think some pieces were left off anyway), [...] If someone is to download just one CD, it seems better that they get a complete XFCE system out of it, rather than an incomplete GNOME system (we had to force network-manager onto Wheezy CD-1 for example). If changing the 'default' in tasksel is the best way to accomplish that, it still doesn't prevent us from promoting (USB-capable) GNOME DVDs as equally or more-preferred media for offline installs. > start moving toward something like xfce as the default that's small, > and mostly capable, [...] Yes, for low-bandwidth, or old-system-supporting-only-CD-media use cases, someone may download CD-1 or a netinst CD only; in either case I think XFCE is a more sensible default than GNOME because of smaller size (with presumably smaller size of stable and security updates too), and AFAICT lower memory/CPU/diskspace requirements. p.s. regarding the relative popularity of desktops, I wonder if the selection of (meta)packages on this graph gives a fair comparison? 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 Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
