Might be best off by having US itself as a meta installable over any DE, assuming the rt-kernel used supports 3d for those DE's requiring it. That would drop into any flavor of Ubuntu, into Mint with a little hacking, maybe even could be ported to Debian if anyone really wants to go there.
On 5/18/2014 at 5:21 AM, "Kaj Ailomaa" <[email protected]> wrote: > ># Supporting multiple Desktop Environments > >There has long been talk about us possibly supporting multiple >desktop >environments. Doing so, we would use existing DE metas, and just >add our >own session, menu, and artwork. The desktop environments in >question >would be unity, gnome, kde, xfce and lxde. > >There are two ways we can do this: > * base our desktop environments on flavor DE metas such as > ubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop, etc, > * or we base on the vanilla DE metas, such as xfce4 (not sure how >that > works with unity though) > >So, let's discuss the pros and cons with selecting one over the >other. >Perhaps choice one is better for some DEs, and choice two better >for >others? > >In our installer we will still need a default DE. And our ISO >should >only have packages for one DE. With Internet connection one could >choose >between several DEs and download the packages during installation. >A >ubiquity plugin needs to be created for this. > ># Custom Ubuntu Studio Desktop Environment > >We could also discuss the possibility of introducing a custom DE >for >Ubuntu Studio. We sort of have that now, but what we have is mostly >copied from Xubuntu. Our current desktop is so close to Xubuntu, >that we >could just as well base ours entirely on theirs. > >It would only make sense to have a custom DE if our DE is largely >different from existing ones. And, it should be very low >maintenance. >I'm thinking something very bare bone and simple. But, perhaps a >vanilla >installation of lxde or xfce already has this advantage? > >-- >ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list >[email protected] >Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
