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Does the desktop fit on the media (CD, DVD, usb) we want to be able to contain a complete desktop environment? Does the desktop fit on the media (CD(?), DVD, usb) we want to be able to contain a complete desktop environment?

The purpose of this page is to collect information about the status of desktop environments in Debian, to aid the tasksel maintainers in deciding which desktops are suitable candidates to be the default desktop. This is analagous to the Release Team's architecture requalification process.

Each line in the table has a reporting team listed. Please do not edit that line or the report in the details below, except on behalf of the reporting team.

gnome

kde

lxde

xfce

reporting team

packaging

(./)

(./)

(./)

desktop maintainers

tasksel task quality

{1}

{3}

{3}

{1}

tasksel maintainers

accessability

Debian accessibility team

systemd integration

systemd maintainers + desktop maintainers

i18n

Debian I18n Team

media size

Debian-CD Team + Debian-live team

details

packaging :: Bool

Is the whole desktop packaged and in a usable state?

The maintainers of each desktop can report on this one, although we have a good idea for the main ones, so already filled them in. If any other desktop teams not listed want to be included in this page, please speak up.

tasksel task quality :: Ranking

Is the tasksel task package available and in good working order? Do the tasksel maintainers have contact with the maintainers of the desktop, in order to make sure the task has the right contents and get the task tested? Please rank the quality of the tasks from 1 to 3.

Report from the tasksel team: We are in good contact with the gnome and xfce teams and get frequent enough feedback from them about task contents. We have some contact with the kde and lxde maintainers, but are less sure about the quality of the task packages for those. The most commonly tested tasks are the xfce and gnome tasks. -- JoeyHess

accessability :: Ranking

Is the desktop accessible to the blind and those with other disabilities? Please rank the degree of the accessability of each desktop from 1 to 3.

Report from the accessability team:

systemd integration :: Bool

Is systemd (and logind etc) well integrated into the version of the desktop currently available in testing? Or are there eg, double-suspend issues? Links to open bug reports are useful here.

We'd like to hear from both the systemd maintainers as well as the maintainers of the desktop environments on this one.

Report from the systemd maintainers:

Report from the gnome maintainers:

Report from the kde maintainers:

Report from the lxde maintainers:

Report from the xfce maintainers:

i18n :: Ranking

How well is each desktop internationalized and translated? It would be great to get some hard numbers, perhaps of the form "X% of world population can use $desktop in their native language". Please rank desktops from 1 to 3.

Report from the Debian i18n team:

Report from the gnome team: our non-expert understanding is that a11y support is now on par with what GNOME 2.30 from squeeze offered https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/08/msg00129.html

media size :: Bool

Does the desktop fit on the media (CD(?), DVD, usb) we want to be able to contain a complete desktop environment?

Report from the Debian-CD team:

Report from the Debian-Live team: