Hi, Mathieu Lirzin skribis: > ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) 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 >> ‘packages’ field, in which case they will be installed globally, like >> the rest of GNOME. >> >> I wouldn’t recommend adding those 4 packages you mention by default >> though, because it’s really a matter of choice (and it’s 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’m not sure what we could do, though. Should the desktop example include a comment like “Uncomment the following lines to add LibreOffice & co.”? This is something that the ncurses interface should make more discoverable. Thanks, Ludo’.