On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 13:46 +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > On Monday 10 October 2005 21:28, Ben Armstrong wrote: > > When you say cross-desktop, does that include systems with only a WM and > > not GNOME or KDE? > > At the moment that includes Freedesktop, KDE, Gnome, XFCE (>= 4.2), ROX, > GNUSTEP and UDE. As far as i know that's everything that bills itself as a > DE inside of Debian. I'll be happy to add any window managers that supports > some profile mechanism if somebody can point me to the relevant > documentation > (I might go over all WM's in Debian at some point, but since everybody uses > their own different terminology for 'profile' it's timeconsuming to find > the right documentation, that is _if_ they support it off course, and > there's lots of WM's)
I'm not at this point requesting profiles be supported on WMs. I just asked for clarification. So long as we note the limitations of profiles, we needn't worry about it any further unless we find there is a real need for profiles on bare WMs. A few potential scenarios that spring to mind are: 1. a "light" live CD supporting Jr. profiles, but not including a DE; leaving off the DE leaves more room for other things 2. LTSP. in the interest of keeping memory usage per client down, a DE might not be desirable. 3. older hardware with low memory. But it is best to leave those bridges uncrossed for now. I think we should just go ahead and carve out a few initial categories and populate them with material and worry about this issue later. Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
