Some points/issues to discuss about the desktop

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:47:41PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:

> 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.

I do still feel that we should have a consistent set of packages installed.
If the user later inserts a WiFi card, they should get the applet (and thus
they must already have it installed).

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 - mdz