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Re: [PATCH 0/1] improvements to the lightweight desktop example


From: Mathieu Lirzin
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] improvements to the lightweight desktop example
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 11:33:24 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux)

Hi,

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> 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(-)

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Mathieu Lirzin
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