[ubuntu-studio-devel] Desktop Agnostic, Was: Re: Gedit

[Kaj Ailomaa]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015, at 04:20 PM, Len Ovens wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Nov 2015, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
> 
> > But, to become truly desktop agnostic, we still need to solve a few
> > things.
> > * a way to install any existing DE with Ubuntu Studio specific stuff on
> > top by installing either only ubuntustudio-desktop (would require an
> > install script with both gui and terminal options), or having one Ubuntu
> > Studio package for each DE (ubuntustudio-xfce, ubuntustudio-kde, etc).
> 
> I think the way to do this is to make Studio only minimally different. 
> Right now we have /etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntustudio. I am not sure we _have_ to 
> have that. Menu changes are not really in there anyway already. Is there 
> another way to set backdrop/icons? Do we need to do more than that? It 
> looks like enough with xubuntu and I would think for K, L, vanilla, etc. 
> we want to leave it enough alone that the user feels they are still using 
> the DE of choice. We could have separate directories in /etc/xdg/ and
> only 
> install the one session desktop file to go with whatever DE is actually 
> installed I guess. We need an Icon theme for each DE that just puts our 
> few custom icons on top of the standard ones or we need to make sure ours 
> are uniquely named and just put them in hicolour which everything should 
> inherit anyway.

Yeah, it pretty much comes down to theming. If we are prepared to drop
our own, the solution is quite simple.

But, if we do want our own custom desktop specific for audio use, with
absolute control of every single service in the system we need our own
desktop seed and settings. We aren't doing that currently. Our desktop
meta is an old version of Xubuntu's with a few changes since, so it's
not like we would be dropping our own desktop setup - since we have
none, so to speak.