[Steven Chamberlain] > Hi! > > I was curious why Debian Edu didn't support an XFCE desktop.
Only because we lack manpower. No-one have worked on it so far. :) Perhaps you are willing to maintain it? Ie take responsibility for the desktop-xfce file and regularly test the different profiles with desktop=xfce to verfiy that they are working as they should? > I certainly like it - I think it is functional and simple, yet > lightweight - and if this graph is correct it would seem to be close > to KDE4 in popularity now: > > 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 Wow, did not know it was that popular. It is a lot more popular than LXDE. Look like something we should support in Wheezy. > I recall a couple of things were changed recently in tasksel for XFCE: > > * network-manager-gnome, instead of wicd > * post-wheezy: evince-gtk, instead of epdfview > > > I think the xfce4-goodies are worth having, for a more 'complete' > desktop environment, at the expense of ~40 MiB uncompressed (unless you > are *really* constrained for space). > > Some of tasksel's Recommends for xfce would be already included by the > xfce4-goodies metapackage (xfce4-terminal, mousepad) or the xfce4 core > package (xfce4-mixer, orage). > > Other XFCE- or GTK2-specific packages currently recommended by tasksel > are: xfprint4, system-config-printer, xfce4-power-manager, > libreoffice-gtk, tango-icon-theme, dbus-x11: > > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=tasksel/tasksel.git;a=blob;f=debian/control;h=628f47da9db203f22a39a90c905d0a2485df7e00;hb=d481e5b565b8454f442ced4f7ff48f4502881ed2#l201 > > The rest is probably covered by generic Debian Edu desktop tasks. I'll add these to the desktop-xfce task. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
