Hello, i finally got the chance to download the slim edition of openmandriva in his gnome spin, and i wanted to write here some concerns i have with it
let me specify anyway that concerns are different from problems, and i will list them later
i mainly have one concern and that is the fact that most gtk3 apps are preferred to gtk4, we should go modern not backwards, and i think some apps could be removed (i’m looking at you power manager), or for example, gedit and gucharmap could (or should?) be replaced by gnome-characters and gnome-text-editor
there are also two main problems with the iso
1 i know you wanted to keep the iso as slim as possible but some other languages other than english should be added, i for example would not use that for that alone, despite knowing english, but i think at least top european languages should be included
2 the app for configuring the printer is missing, yeah i know, cups, and i know i can install the relative app from repos, but still, in my opinion an app for configuring printers should be part of a base install or users might get lost
but
credit where it’s due and with problem 1 and 2 addressed, this would be to me an instant choice over the big iso, because that would mean less time on slower connections to download the iso and much less time to remove not needed things that can be easily installed in omv repos
My suggestion would be to have a section in om-welcome that allows the install of additional languages and whatever the similar utility is for GNOME. Plasma seems to handle that in System Settings → Region & Language, but I have no idea if the backend handles the install of other languages as I only speak English.
anyway, gnome handles languages in the same section of settings, but the slim iso only lists english languages and it’s variants (like american english, british english and so on), so i suppose they have just been stripped out from the iso per se…
Second, if we start to add packages to the slim iso it would fail its purpose to exist.
Also, what should be included may vary from person to person.
Every choice necessarily does imply a sacrifice.
Postedit:
Looked around for translation of the well known Italian idiom “Non si può avere la botte piena e la moglie ubriaca”
and found: “You can’t have your cake and eat it too”
