On Fri 18 Sep 2020 at 07:32:46 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:42:59PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > The function of the menu is crystal clear. > > > > Activating as it as presented a user gets the ticked option. > > > > Unticking the option gets the user nothing. > > > > Start with that. > > Right now, if you un-check GNOME, but leave "Debian desktop" checked, > you get a mystery desktop, which usually but not always turns out to > be GNOME, which is the thing that you just un-checked.
I don't really want to nit-pick but, when the menu is presented, only "Debian desktop environment" is selected. A user who wonders what it provides is free to read the available documentation (Installation Guide, wiki etc) to resolve the mystery. When I have a Bash issue I often find a bit of reading clarifies matters :). The default desktop is determined by the Recommends: of task-desktop. The DEs are installed based on the Depends: of the various packages. Is there a better way of doing it? > How you don't find that confusing is a mystery to me. I'll take that to be rhetorical. Regarding new users: they are just as likely to be mystified by "lxde" and "lxqt" as by "Debian desktop environment". -- Brian.
