[ubuntu-studio-devel] Desktop Agnostic, Was: Re: Gedit

[Jonathan Aquilina]

Just some thoughts here and I know probably my input wont matter much.

Why not use enlightenment WM. It is lightweight and super quick. I think
for an multimedia based distribution it would be a great way to go so that
one can maximise resource usage by the multimedia applications.

Jonathan Aquilina

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Kaj Ailomaa <zequence at mousike.me> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015, at 04:20 PM, Len Ovens wrote:
> > On Thu, 26 Nov 2015, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
> >
> > > But, to become truly desktop agnostic, we still need to solve a few
> > > things.
> > > * a way to install any existing DE with Ubuntu Studio specific stuff on
> > > top by installing either only ubuntustudio-desktop (would require an
> > > install script with both gui and terminal options), or having one
> Ubuntu
> > > Studio package for each DE (ubuntustudio-xfce, ubuntustudio-kde, etc).
> >
> > I think the way to do this is to make Studio only minimally different.
> > Right now we have /etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntustudio. I am not sure we _have_ to
> > have that. Menu changes are not really in there anyway already. Is there
> > another way to set backdrop/icons? Do we need to do more than that? It
> > looks like enough with xubuntu and I would think for K, L, vanilla, etc.
> > we want to leave it enough alone that the user feels they are still using
> > the DE of choice. We could have separate directories in /etc/xdg/ and
> > only
> > install the one session desktop file to go with whatever DE is actually
> > installed I guess. We need an Icon theme for each DE that just puts our
> > few custom icons on top of the standard ones or we need to make sure ours
> > are uniquely named and just put them in hicolour which everything should
> > inherit anyway.
>
> Yeah, it pretty much comes down to theming. If we are prepared to drop
> our own, the solution is quite simple.
>
> But, if we do want our own custom desktop specific for audio use, with
> absolute control of every single service in the system we need our own
> desktop seed and settings. We aren't doing that currently. Our desktop
> meta is an old version of Xubuntu's with a few changes since, so it's
> not like we would be dropping our own desktop setup - since we have
> none, so to speak.
>
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