On Fri, 27 Feb 2015, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

>    Ok, that sounds like a plan.

>

>    But which is the default DE for Devuan-- XFCE or Mate?

It will be Xfce4, since Mate is somehow too big.

Later on, we may still want to have a respin installer and/or liveCD
with Mate default and anyway Mate is simple to apt-get install.

However the default DE will be Xfce4 and we are also contributing to its
code in order to keep it away from systemd lockin (thanks Dima!)
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11574

Many VUAs love Xfce4 and its team is really a good example of talented
open source developers with good concerns about usability, compatibility
and resource consumption. we may want to backport a newer package
ourselves with a more actual 4.12 (volunteers welcome).

ciao