On 2017-02-23 03:27, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2017 schrieb Jaromil:
>> Golinux has done an outstanding work with the looks of Devuan,
>> starting from the website to finish with the purpy desktop, but we
>> must admit the integration of this part is one of the main reasons we
>> are so late, since the Linux desktop has become an hairball of stupid
>> freedesktop standards.
>>
>> If noone manages to fix the default desktop installed using d-i, then
>> we'll drop the idea of fixing it and present the Devuan-live packed
>> together by Refracta's author fsmithred as the "official Devuan for
>> desktop". The d-i installer (aka still useful hairball) will stay for
>> the many other usecases where its desired.
>
> As david already pointed out, you could use TDE as default.
>
> Nik
>

That won't be possible for jessie at this late date. Theming takes a
LOT of time and is painstaking work. I'm not a fan of TDE - too clunky
and cluttered for my taste but it will be under consideration for ascii
along with other DE/WM if Xfce is no longer workable. However, it is
possible that other desktops will suffer the same issues with the
installer. But thanks to fsmithred, we have a reliable and easy to
install desktop option until this can be sorted.

golinux