[ubuntu-studio-devel] Feature Spec discussion: ubuntustudio-desktop

[Jimmy Sjölund]

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Kaj Ailomaa <zequence at mousike.me> wrote:

> # Supporting multiple Desktop Environments
>
> There has long been talk about us possibly supporting multiple desktop
> environments. Doing so, we would use existing DE metas, and just add our
> own session, menu, and artwork. The desktop environments in question
> would be unity, gnome, kde, xfce and lxde.
>
> There are two ways we can do this:
>  * base our desktop environments on flavor DE metas such as
>  ubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop, etc,
>  * or we base on the vanilla DE metas, such as xfce4 (not sure how that
>  works with unity though)
>
> So, let's discuss the pros and cons with selecting one over the other.
> Perhaps choice one is better for some DEs, and choice two better for
> others?
>

I think one of the advantages for us to use for instance xubuntu-desktop is
that the possibilities for support is much greater. If it's a vanilla
Xubuntu desktop you would have all the xubuntu community to help out with
DE related questions.

Sure, with a plain Xfce DE we could say that we would have all the
xfce-community to help out with support but I think it's easier to provide
closer support within the *buntu sphere.

/Jimmy
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