Just some thoughts here and I know probably my input wont matter much. Why not use enlightenment WM. It is lightweight and super quick. I think for an multimedia based distribution it would be a great way to go so that one can maximise resource usage by the multimedia applications.
Jonathan Aquilina On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Kaj Ailomaa <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015, at 04:20 PM, Len Ovens wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Nov 2015, Kaj Ailomaa wrote: > > > > > But, to become truly desktop agnostic, we still need to solve a few > > > things. > > > * a way to install any existing DE with Ubuntu Studio specific stuff on > > > top by installing either only ubuntustudio-desktop (would require an > > > install script with both gui and terminal options), or having one > Ubuntu > > > Studio package for each DE (ubuntustudio-xfce, ubuntustudio-kde, etc). > > > > I think the way to do this is to make Studio only minimally different. > > Right now we have /etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntustudio. I am not sure we _have_ to > > have that. Menu changes are not really in there anyway already. Is there > > another way to set backdrop/icons? Do we need to do more than that? It > > looks like enough with xubuntu and I would think for K, L, vanilla, etc. > > we want to leave it enough alone that the user feels they are still using > > the DE of choice. We could have separate directories in /etc/xdg/ and > > only > > install the one session desktop file to go with whatever DE is actually > > installed I guess. We need an Icon theme for each DE that just puts our > > few custom icons on top of the standard ones or we need to make sure ours > > are uniquely named and just put them in hicolour which everything should > > inherit anyway. > > Yeah, it pretty much comes down to theming. If we are prepared to drop > our own, the solution is quite simple. > > But, if we do want our own custom desktop specific for audio use, with > absolute control of every single service in the system we need our own > desktop seed and settings. We aren't doing that currently. Our desktop > meta is an old version of Xubuntu's with a few changes since, so it's > not like we would be dropping our own desktop setup - since we have > none, so to speak. > > -- > ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel >
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