From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mathieu Lirzin Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] improvements to the lightweight desktop example Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 11:33:24 +0100 Message-ID: <87wpci347f.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41175) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cgUEi-0007kF-Iu for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2017 05:33:29 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cgUEh-0000g2-Op for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2017 05:33:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Leo Famulari's message of "Tue, 21 Feb 2017 17:09:35 -0500") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi, Leo Famulari writes: > I think we should remove xmonad from the lightweight-desktop OS > declaration example. Xmonad is not "lightweight" in terms of disk space > or bandwidth, since it requires GHC, which is 859 MiB uncompressed. Makes sense. > Also, the i3 window manager is not very useful without dmenu and > i3status, so I think we should add them. Agreed. While we are on this lightweight template, what would you think of replacing ratpoison with something less "exotic" like openbox? :) > Leo Famulari (1): > gnu: lightweight-desktop.tmpl: Remove xmonad and complete i3-wm. > > gnu/system/examples/lightweight-desktop.tmpl | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) -- Mathieu Lirzin GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761 070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37