Re: remove desktop-profiles?

Wolfgang Schweer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.desktop
Message-ID <20191118155545.GA7679__46936.1317622074$1574092666$gmane$org@star>
On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 10:25:48AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> If I recall correctly, desktop-profiles took desktop setup desicions 
> based on environment variables set during login.  I guess it can also 
> be done using a Xsession.d script, if XDG do not have that feature.

IIRC, desktop-profiles has been useful to do a lot of configuration at 
KDE3.x times. With KDE going on, the Debian Edu settings got more and 
more outdated and non-functional (with menu-reordering left as only use 
case). With the Buster release desktop-profiles were disabled (via 
setting 'PERSONALITY=sheep' in /etc/default/desktop-profiles).

Yes, while XDG can do menu-reordering, other tweaking can be done using 
xsession scripts. For Debian Edu, these scripts in /etc/X11/Xsession.de 
are just links to scripts in /usr/share/debian-edu-config set by 
Cfengine conditionally, mostly for temporary workarounds like those for 
Xfce in Buster.

Wolfgang
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