Hi, On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 10:52:22PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > [ cc += Guido Günther ] > > Philip Hands <[email protected]> (2025-05-26): > > Combining this and the Phosh MR[1] ends up looking like this (1024x768): > > > > https://openqa.debian.net/tests/399843#step/choose_software/1 > > > > Lomiri currently appears twice, so that is 3 new entries with Phosh. > > > > BTW The descriptions for the 2 Lomiri tasks need to be fixed, in order > > to distinguish between the `desktop` and `tablet` variants, unless we > > decided to only offer one of those via tasksel. > > Thanks. I think I'd like to have a single entry to start with, maybe the > desktop variant? I can understand how hard targeting this or that bit of > hardware can be, but I would really expect a desktop environment to have > components to figure that out at runtime, instead of having two different > sets of packages. > > (Thinking out loud, maybe it'd be feasible to skip one of them from d-i, > but offer it when tasksel runs interactively — not from pkgsel —, so that > users can switch from say task-lomiri-desktop to task-lomiri-tablet by > running tasksel after the install? But if that's mainly about requiring > fewer packages, as opposed to different core components, I'd think that > reinforces my initial assessment: propose Lomiri for desktop, leaving it > up to tablet users to either skip desktop entirely, then installing the > -tablet task afterwards, or to buy the whole desktop and call it a day?) > > > I haven't looked at either MRs at the moment, but I think I'd like to > have the newest additions at the bottom of the desktop (kinda-sub)list, > instead of having them pop up at some (seemingly) random locations in the > existing, non-sorted list. I'd think that's only a matter of adjusting > some priority/score/relevance integer that I vaguely remember, though, so > that should be on the easy side of things.
Moving it to the bottom works for me. Having it listed at all would be a good step forward for people installing on small form factors, tablets, etc. as currently they install another DE and switch which often confuses new users. Although we have a tablet and phone meta package I opted to go for the "full" one and just use one entry as that's what most people likely want when using d-i. Cheers, -- Guido > > > Thoughts on both topics? (The first one might be a hard one, the second > one should be mostly cosmetics?) > > > Cheers, > -- > Cyril Brulebois ([email protected]) <https://debamax.com/> > D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
