[ubuntu-studio-devel] availability of alternate DEs

[jaquilina at eagleeyet.net]

What would need to be done to cater for the newbies?


On 2018-10-11 06:43, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 06:31:01 +0200, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
>> If the below is accurate what issues could be encountered in terms of
>> configuration?
> 
> For example an incomplete "NotShowIn" list for desktop files.
> 
> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ grep NotShowIn
> /etc/xdg/autostart/xfce4-power-manager.desktop
> NotShowIn=GNOME;KDE;Unity;MATE;
> 
> For example the preferences of a file manager are set to manage the
> desktop and launching this file manager by a menu based on desktop
> files, it gets launched without a no-desktop option.
> 
> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ grep Exec 
> /usr/share/applications/caja.desktop
> Exec=caja
> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ caja --help | grep no-desktop
>   --no-desktop                    Do not manage the desktop (ignore
> the preference set in the preferences dialog).
> 
> Those are trivial issues for power users, but a newbie could be
> confused.
> 
> --
> pacman -Q linux{,-rt{,-securityink,-pussytoes,-cornflower}}|cut -d\  
> -f2
> 4.18.12.arch1-1
> 4.18.12_rt7-1
> 4.18.7_rt5-1
> 4.18.5_rt3-1
> 4.16.18_rt12-1