From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: bug#25296: fully functional desktop installation Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 22:53:56 +0100 Message-ID: <87shb8jedn.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20161229171045.263747a9@riseup.net> <87bmvpb21m.fsf@gnu.org> <87a7xgwom7.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58294) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaqF9-0002m3-Sl for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 16:55:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaqF5-0004KS-Rb for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 16:55:07 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:48493) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaqF5-0004KM-Nu for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 16:55:03 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eaqF5-0000Mg-87 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 16:55:03 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87a7xgwom7.fsf@gnu.org> (Mathieu Lirzin's message of "Sun, 14 Jan 2018 14:34:24 +0100") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Mathieu Lirzin Cc: 25296@debbugs.gnu.org Hi, Mathieu Lirzin skribis: > ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: > >> Hello! >> >> Quiliro skribis: >> >>> It would be nice to create a desktop.scm file that contains all >>> necessary packages to have a fully functional desktop installation for >>> the end user. It is for that user that only uses the machine to write >>> and read emails, create and read text documents and spreadsheets too. I >>> know the current desktop.scm contain some of those features and that >>> after that >>> guix package --install pidgin libreoffice icecat clawsmail >>> (and so) can provide the necessary packages. But I would like to make >>> an installation that is just as trisquel is. It is not necessary to >>> have the same configuration or the same packages. But it would be >>> useful to have it as easy to just use as is Trisquel. >> >> The desktop example contains all of GNOME, when choosing GNOME, which >> provides an email client, Web browser, and lots of other things. >> >> Additional packages like those you mention could be added to the >> =E2=80=98packages=E2=80=99 field, in which case they will be installed g= lobally, like >> the rest of GNOME. >> >> I wouldn=E2=80=99t recommend adding those 4 packages you mention by defa= ult >> though, because it=E2=80=99s really a matter of choice (and it=E2=80=99s= redundant with >> what GNOME provides, I think.) > > I think your remark applies to pidgin and clawsmail but not to > Libreoffice and Icecat (Firefox) which are commonly installed OOTB by > mainstream distros (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora) along with the GNOME > desktop. I=E2=80=99m not sure what we could do, though. Should the desktop example include a comment like =E2=80=9CUncomment the following lines to add LibreO= ffice & co.=E2=80=9D? This is something that the ncurses interface should make more discoverable. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.