[ubuntu-studio-devel] availability of alternate DEs

[jaquilina at eagleeyet.net]

There are the meta packages already no? (Kubuntu-desktop) for example.

Why not work with those to get the desktop environment sorted then along 
side that install the Studio meta package?

On 2018-10-05 17:35, Len Ovens wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Oct 2018, Ross Gammon wrote:
> 
>> Is it not possible to install the kubuntu metapackage (or one of them)
>> on a Ubuntu Studio install and then chose the DE when logging in?
>> 
>> If that was possible, then we could add a new metapackage to our
>> ubuntustudio seeds that could be optionally installed, and then switch
>> the seeds to that metapackage once we are happy.
> 
> Probably some of us are just hard of thinking :) That would increase
> the ISO size by the size of the plasma meta, though the resulting ISO
> would probably still fit on a DVD (if those are still a thing). DL
> time would go up yet a again. It would, at this point, be a next cycle
> thing of course. We would need at least an optional -plasma-desktop
> package, but more realistically we would need to split
> -default-settings into -default-setting and -xfce-desktop (replace
> "desktop" with "settings" if needed).
> 
> I guess it is possible for the plasma part to be dl and install during
> ISO install rather than included on the ISO. So there might be a
> default DE on the ISO, but at install time a different DE could be
> selected. I do not know how to do that, but the installer already DL
> and installes non-free packages so there must be a way.
> 
> 
> 
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> Len Ovens
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