Some points/issues to discuss about the desktop

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Colin Watson">

> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:37:48PM +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> > In some future release, we should analyse the system and create a
> > default desktop that reflects what we think the system is capable of
> > (wifi, battery, sound etc).
> 
> We nobbled a lot of d-i's handling of this kind of thing in the name of
> having the same set of packages installed on every system. Perhaps that or
> something like it could be resurrected; if people still don't like varying
> the set of packages that are installed, d-i could leave notes somewhere
> about what it found, and something later could parse them.

(Note that this is about what's shown, not what's installed.)

- Jeff

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