Criterion revision proposal: KDE default applications

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On lau 14.des 2013 02:06, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-12-14 at 00:44 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>> On fös 13.des 2013 20:42, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>
> So, let's rewind a bit and look at things. The main reason we have a
> divergence is due to space on the live images.

An restrain that the sub-community's they themselves bestowed upon it.

As far as I know they have been free to decide their own size for quite 
sometime.

> Perhaps the simple thing to do going forward is bump KDE and GNOME to
> 2GB max sizes,

I would say that would be the wrong approach since as soon as you start 
limited things to sizes you start compromising the desktop experience 
you intent for the end user which is one of the underlying cause that 
has been giving this half finished feeling with our default desktop.

>   ostensibly one that's CD sized and one that's
> larger-than-CD-sized

It's nonsense to ship two sized images ( as well as having multiple ks 
files in general for DE's ) for the same desktop environment and we 
already have sub-communities ( xfce/lxde for example ) which advertise 
themselves being less resources hungry and smaller ( which would cater 
to the cd-sized image crowd ).

> anyhow, desktop and KDE teams: what do you think of this idea?

There are more desktop environments that we ship in the distribution 
then KDE and Gnome and more likely that more will be packaged then not.

JBG