On 07/28/2016 11:34 PM, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
Hi,
In the thread about lxdm we learned that we don't seem to have LXDE maintainers anymore. Yet we have LXDE on the DVD and offer it very prominently in the installer: https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/230205#step/installer_desktopselection/6
So I wonder if putting LXDE in the spotlight like that still makes sense?
Also, I wonder whether the minimal X selection adds much value. Those who want to use a different window manager could start off from text mode just as well, right?
cu Ludwig
Personally from an enlightenment perspective when people ask I recommend using the net install where enlightenment becomes one of the choices (Its not currently on the DVD). I think as others have mentioned in this thread there needs to be a way for a lot of users to install something thats not gnome or kde (they take reasonable effort to remove again once installed) and end up with a graphical environment where they can configure Network Manager and install whichever desktop they want. In my opinion as long as there is one of (XFCE/LXDE/Minimal-IceWM/LXQt(When its ready) That will meet this need. I fear only providing (Gnome/KDE/TextMode) will put off some users that don't want Gnome/KDE which when I tried them both last on older hardware didn't perform that well, but still arn't confident enough to know what ncurses is and that they can get a graphical yast / Network manager config from there terminal. At the same time with my enlightenment maintainer hat on id like it if there was room on the DVD so it could also be a option, enlightenment for 42.2 is looking really solid and currently openSUSE is the only distro providing good up to date enlightenment packages. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adeliade Australia, UTC+9:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B