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| From | Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Where was the discussion of GNOME 3 shipping as the default desktop? |
| Date | 2018-10-17 12:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <wJQW5-7SS-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <wJGtH-1nN-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
Hi. On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 05:58:26PM -0500, Austin LaBerta wrote: > Apologies for the baity title but its very literal. > > where was it? Google is giving me very poor results, I assume it was > done over mailing list but I'm not even sure where to start lookin. All > I can figure was that it was sometime around Jessie and that XFCE was > the previous desktop. It was - [1]. Jessie was testing back then, the official reason was - we need Desktop Environment that fits on first CD. > I'm not SUPER interested in Debating why it > should/should not be (and i'd advice starting another thread for that > if you want to shout about how much you hate/love GNOME), I just wanted > to see the reasoning behind the decision. [2] gives two official reasons - 'accessibility' and 'systemd integration' and four 'less tangible things'. I haven't searched debian-devel, but the discussion you're looking for should be there - [3]. I'd start with Jul 2014, following by Aug 2014 and Sep 2014 (the change was made 19th September 2014). Reco [1] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/tasksel/commit/2a962cc65cdba010177f27e8824ba10d9a799a08 [2] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/tasksel/commit/dce99f5f8d84e4c885e6beb4cc1bb5bb1d9ee6d7 [3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel
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Where was the discussion of GNOME 3 shipping as the default desktop? Austin LaBerta <oct2pus@jade.moe> - 2018-10-17 01:00 +0200 Re: Where was the discussion of GNOME 3 shipping as the default desktop? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-10-17 12:10 +0200 Re: Where was the discussion of GNOME 3 shipping as the default desktop? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-10-17 12:40 +0200
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