Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-07 Thread Jordi Mallach
Hi Debian, It's been around 9 months since tasksel changed (for real) the default desktop for new installs. At the time of the change, it was mentioned the issue would be revisited before the freeze, around debconf time. Well, it's roughly that time. :) So I'd like to plainly request GNOME is

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-07 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 07 Aug 2014, Jordi Mallach wrote: Well, it's roughly that time. :) So I'd like to plainly request GNOME is reinstated as the default desktop environment for a number of reasons. One of the reasons put forward for switching to Xfce was size on the installation images; could you (and/or

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-07 Thread Gunnar Wolf
I cannot make a full, fair comparison between desktop environments, as I use none. I saw several people bark at GNOME 3, but most of them are happy adopters nowadays, so, I don't believe that factor should carry much weigh nowadays. Besides, as Jordi says, making end users re-learn everything