Some points/issues to discuss about the desktop

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 06:48:25AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Colin Watson">
> > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:37:48PM +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> > > In some future release, we should analyse the system and create a
> > > default desktop that reflects what we think the system is capable of
> > > (wifi, battery, sound etc).
> > 
> > We nobbled a lot of d-i's handling of this kind of thing in the name of
> > having the same set of packages installed on every system. Perhaps that or
> > something like it could be resurrected; if people still don't like varying
> > the set of packages that are installed, d-i could leave notes somewhere
> > about what it found, and something later could parse them.
> 
> (Note that this is about what's shown, not what's installed.)

(a) You can not show something by not installing it in the first place;
(b) even if you don't go the "don't install it" route, the significant
amount of hardware detection infrastructure in d-i can still be used to
tell something what to show.

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]