Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 12 septembre 2012 à 11:03 +0100, Darac Marjal a écrit : >> Isn't the whole concept of "default desktop" just a matter of "which >> desktop is included on CD1"? Are you proposing that Debian switches to a >> series of "CD1s" (Deb

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi: On 12/09/12 16:36, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: On 12/09/2012 15:53, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Claiming that ``What is on CD1 is really anecdotic, since most people use (or should use) the netinst'' really sounds as claim of a newbie who has never installed Debian on a computer. So do not be

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-12 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On 12/09/2012 15:53, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Claiming that ``What is on CD1 is really anecdotic, since most people use (or > should > use) the netinst'' really sounds as claim of a newbie who has never installed > Debian > on a computer. So do not be surprised to get newbie like responses. > Othe

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 12/09/12 13:38, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 12 septembre 2012 à 12:40 +0200, Jerome BENOIT a écrit : What does it happen when no internet connection is available (no access to internet, no supported driver for the net card) ? This case is certainly as anecdotic as CD1, but somehow

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 sep 12, 13:34:38, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 12 septembre 2012 à 13:39 +0300, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : > > Assuming a user that has no idea what Gnome/KDE/Xfce/LXDE or even a > > "Desktop Environment" is, what should happen if the user makes no choice > > at all? > > What w

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-12 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 01:34:38PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 12 septembre 2012 à 13:39 +0300, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : > > Assuming a user that has no idea what Gnome/KDE/Xfce/LXDE or even a > > "Desktop Environment" is, what should happen if the user makes no choice > > at al

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 12 septembre 2012 à 12:40 +0200, Jerome BENOIT a écrit : > What does it happen when no internet connection is available (no access to > internet, > no supported driver for the net card) ? > This case is certainly as anecdotic as CD1, but somehow in this situation CD1 > can be very use

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 12 septembre 2012 à 13:39 +0300, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : > Assuming a user that has no idea what Gnome/KDE/Xfce/LXDE or even a > "Desktop Environment" is, what should happen if the user makes no choice > at all? What we have now: a sensible default. -- .''`. Josselin Mouett

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 12/09/12 12:16, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 12 septembre 2012 à 11:03 +0100, Darac Marjal a écrit : Isn't the whole concept of "default desktop" just a matter of "which desktop is included on CD1"? Are you proposing that Debian switches to a series of "CD1s" (Debian Ghome Edition, D

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 sep 12, 12:16:50, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > So the real question is being able to choose the desktop from the > installer instead of having to pre-seed this choice. Assuming a user that has no idea what Gnome/KDE/Xfce/LXDE or even a "Desktop Environment" is, what should happen if the

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 12 septembre 2012 à 11:03 +0100, Darac Marjal a écrit : > Isn't the whole concept of "default desktop" just a matter of "which > desktop is included on CD1"? Are you proposing that Debian switches to a > series of "CD1s" (Debian Ghome Edition, Debian KDE Edition, Debian XFCE > Edition

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-12 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:02:28AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Wookey wrote: > > > I'd be happy if xfce was the default. > > I would be happy if we threw away the concept of a "default desktop" > and left that choice to people who do installs or downloading of live

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Paul Wise (12/09/2012): > I would be happy if we threw away the concept of a "default desktop" > and left that choice to people who do installs or downloading of live > images. [patch needed] Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 12 septembre 2012 à 08:15 +, Sune Vuorela a écrit : > On 2012-09-12, Paul Wise wrote: > > I would be happy if we threw away the concept of a "default desktop" > > and left that choice to people who do installs or downloading of live > > images. > > yes please. Seconded. -- .'

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-12 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2012-09-12, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Wookey wrote: > >> I'd be happy if xfce was the default. > > I would be happy if we threw away the concept of a "default desktop" > and left that choice to people who do installs or downloading of live > images. yes please. /Sune

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Wookey wrote: > I'd be happy if xfce was the default. I would be happy if we threw away the concept of a "default desktop" and left that choice to people who do installs or downloading of live images. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBS

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Philipp Kern (12/09/2012): > Does it support accessibility? Just because you quote that we're universal… Last I heard (and if my memory is right, which probably isn't the case, so please double check), a11y should work more or less, but with xfce >= 4.10. That's what's in experimental, oops. L

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 01:38:08PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Wookey wrote: >> > I'd be happy if xfce was the default. Which is better depends if one >> > prefers 'dull-but-works-everywhere' over >> > 'shi

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-11 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 01:38:08PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Wookey wrote: > > I'd be happy if xfce was the default. Which is better depends if one > > prefers 'dull-but-works-everywhere' over > > 'shiny-but-not-universaly-liked'. I can see reasonable argumen

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-11 Thread Florian Weimer
* Ian Jackson: > So if it works just fine without the 3D I don't understand what the > warning is for. It's a separate desktop environment, and not lust a lack of visual effects. None of the Javascript parts work in fallback mode because GNOME Shell isn't running. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Wookey (11/09/2012): > If the message tells people to select 'gnome classic' in the logon > menu to make it go away then that seems reasonable to me. That's not needed; I did write “at first login”. (For those who wonder, the fact it's been displayed is then stored in dconf, see details in [1].)

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 09/11/2012 02:22 PM, Wookey wrote: > If the message tells people to select 'gnome classic' in the logon > menu to make it go away then that seems reasonable to me. Again, not really an option for our live images. Two obvious options are: 1. Modify the live image to silently fail over to gnome

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Wookey wrote: > I'd be happy if xfce was the default. Which is better depends if one > prefers 'dull-but-works-everywhere' over > 'shiny-but-not-universaly-liked'. I can see reasonable arguments in > favour of either. Robustness is a rather important/lofty goal es

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-11 Thread Wookey
+++ Jonathan Carter [2012-09-11 12:34 -0400]: > On 11/09/2012 11:32, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Can we move on now? I don’t even understand how a *one-time warning* > > explaining a user that his desktop will look different from what he > > might obtain on another Debian machine can even be a seri

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 09/11/2012 01:11 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote: > every time the live image is booted they will see this image unless they > happen to be using ^ I meant to say "see this error message", not "see this image". ugh. crappy proofing, sorry.

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-11 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 11/09/2012 11:32, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 11 septembre 2012 à 15:58 +0100, Ian Jackson a écrit : >> I'm not sure of my actual opinion about the warning because I'm not >> sure of the technical background. But I think Debian should try to be >> remain good and useable even on machine

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 09/11/2012 12:55 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Josselin Mouette writes ("Re: Gnome classic mode"): >> Can we move on now? I don’t even understand how a *one-time warning* >> explaining a user that his desktop will look different from what he >> might obtain on anoth

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Josselin Mouette writes ("Re: Gnome classic mode"): > Le mardi 11 septembre 2012 à 15:58 +0100, Ian Jackson a écrit : > > I'm not sure of my actual opinion about the warning because I'm not > > sure of the technical background. But I think Debian should try to

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 11 septembre 2012 à 15:58 +0100, Ian Jackson a écrit : > I'm not sure of my actual opinion about the warning because I'm not > sure of the technical background. But I think Debian should try to be > remain good and useable even on machines with poor or no 3D graphics > support, and not b

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Thomas Goirand writes ("Re: Gnome classic mode"): > Another thing: upstream decided to display a warning. I'm not sure it is > the role of Debian to decide they are wrong. One of the points of having a distro is that a distro (being an entity with a better view of the bigger

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-11 Thread Jonathan Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/09/2012 08:07, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Josselin Mouette (11/09/2012): >> Just because these people are noisy doesn’t make them numerous. >> >> Furthermore, Debian (and Ubuntu too IIRC) makes “GNOME classic” >> available right from the login man

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/11/2012 08:07 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: M-x thread-hijacking-mode Josselin Mouette (11/09/2012): Just because these people are noisy doesn’t make them numerous. Furthermore, Debian (and Ubuntu too IIRC) makes “GNOME classic” available right from the login manager, with the default inst