Control: affects -1 + debian-live On Thu, 26 Feb 2026 at 09:55:37 -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
The Debian Live GNOME ISO includes many more apps than are included in the official Debian installer when you choose GNOME. These additional apps show in the Activities Overview and create a much more cluttered layout. This has led some people to avoid Debian GNOME because it feels "bloated" to them, not realizing that the Live ISO is very different than the non-Live version.
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Because of this issue's high impact for Debian GNOME, I want to do a Stable Update with this change to fix future Debian 13 point releases.
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianCD/ReleaseTesting/Trixie_r3 has a couple of errata which would be fixed by this change. Cc'ing debian-cd to keep this on the radar of the team that tests live images, so that after this is fixed, the next point release test can verify that the change has really taken effect.
- debian-reference-common. This avoids a Debian Reference .desktop which opens the browser with links to local copies of Debian Reference but only in Italian and Spanish.
This is in the live image errata, and is https://bugs.debian.org/1110658
- Debian's ibus-anthy includes an autostart .desktop which sets the default input method to Japanese (Anthy). As long as this package does that, it is inappropriate for inclusion in Debian Live GNOME.
This is one of the live image errata noted during testing but doesn't seem to have a bug number at the moment. Thank you for diagnosing why this happens!
I agree that it would be better to have Anthy *available*, but without it being the default.
- fcitx5 adds 3 launchers to the default top level Activities Overview. Many years ago, GNOME decided to integrate only ibus for input methods. fcitx5 also pulls in Qt which is otherwise unnecessary for Debian GNOME.
This isn't in the errata but seems like https://bugs.debian.org/1083199
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All of the extra language support packages are installed as part of the Live install for everyone, even though most people won't need all of them.
This is https://bugs.debian.org/1020940, I think. smcv
