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[Theaterlinux-devel] The default Theater system?

[Are H. <ah...@th...>]

Under a Debian installation you got the opportunity to chose between
tasks that provides you with different system installations. Example
Desktop, Web server, DNS server etc. This is done by using the package
Tasksel.

Since Theater is based on Debian Sarge I thought maybe Theater also
should have that opportunity. But am not sure what tasks that should be
available. Perhaps you people have some ideas?

But even if the user have some alternatives, there is always a default
task. And that lead me to the question: what should the default Theater
task include?

Personally I thought of Fluxbox as WM. This because of it's speed and
flexibility. And maybe MythTV as front end. As of other packages am
really not sure. You see I posted this thread so we all could have some
brainstorming here...

I've currently not tested Freevo, do anyone have some experience to
share?

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Are Hjelt <ah...@th...>
TheaterLinux.org

[Theaterlinux-devel] Re: The default Theater system?

[Are H. <ah...@th...>]

After some speculating about this subject I thought perhaps the front
end selection could be made after the system installation, instead of
during it.
With that I mean a configuration wizard that is executed after the very
first startup.
The configuration wizard could include the opportunity to chose which
front end to use and the installation of other optional application.

The the Tasksel package could only include the selection of what WM to
use.

The configuration wizard can easily be developed using PyGTK.

So what do you think about that idea? I personally think it would be
better to take the front end selection within a nice GTK GUI, instead of
within the Tasksel package.