[pkg-cinnamon] Fwd: Re: Bug#762342: task-cinnamon-desktop: Please turn on display of Cinnamon desktop task

[Ben Armstrong]

Perhaps one or more of you on this team who've worked longer with
Cinnamon could follow up on this bug, speaking for Cinnamon's
distinctiveness or at least making a compelling case for being included
in those desktops which are displayed in the list of tasks.

Ben

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	Re: Bug#762342: task-cinnamon-desktop: Please turn on display
of Cinnamon desktop task
Date: 	Tue, 23 Sep 2014 13:36:34 -0400
From: 	Joey Hess <joeyh at debian.org>
To: 	Ben Armstrong <synrg at sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>, 762342 at bugs.debian.org



Ben Armstrong wrote:
> Please turn on display of the Cinnamon desktop task. I have tested
> building Jessie live images with Cinnamon included and it seems to
> already provide a usable desktop. It would be useful for testers to
> be able to see Cinnamon so they can try it and help shake out any
> remaining bugs between now and the freeze.

lxde is also not displayed. I have not figured out where the dividing
line should be, or really what the criteria should be for a desktop task
to be displayed.

One way might be to decide if a given DE is fundamentally different than
the others in some way, and if not, only include one of a set that share
common characteristics. So, maybe only gnome and not cinnamon since it's
a rather near cousin (AFIACS). Or only xfce and not lxde since both are
fairly light desktops.

Another way could be to look at popcon trends, although cinnamon is too
recently packaged to be able to tell if it will have many users in
debian.

-- 
see shy jo




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