On 02/28/2015 04:40 AM, Jaromil wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2015, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
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>>     Ok, that sounds like a plan.

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>>     But which is the default DE for Devuan-- XFCE or Mate?
> It will be Xfce4, since Mate is somehow too big.

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> 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.
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> 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
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> 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).

Ok. From what Steve has written it looks like there are a lot more
possibilities than I imagined to get the minimal functionality I mentioned.
Once Devuan gets some ISOs for a basic system up, I'll spend some
time working within the default DE, and continue from there.

-Jonathan

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