Task: desktop
Section: user
Relevance: 8
Test-desktop: 1
Description: Desktop environment
 This task provides basic desktop software and serves as a basis for the
 Gnome and KDE desktop tasks.
Key:
  xorg
  xserver-xorg-video-all
  xserver-xorg-input-all
  desktop-base
  menu
# firefox (ne iceweasel) is the most popular web browser at the moment,
# although both gnome and kde offer their own too
  iceweasel
# hardware detection
  discover1
  xresprobe
# sound
  alsa-utils
  alsa-base
# Make sure that CDs etc can be ejected. May not be installed by d-i.
  eject
Packages: task-fields
Packages-list:
  hotkey-setup
# the gimp is the best image editor, no matter the desktop
  gimp
# openoffice.org is the best word processor / office suite at the moment
  openoffice.org
  openoffice.org-gcj
# make help menu work
  openoffice.org-help-en-us
# make thesaurus work
  openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us
# make spellchecker work
  myspell-en-us
# Since neither the gnome nor kde desktop tasks may be available, include
# enough basic X stuff here for a minally useful desktop without them.
  twm
  xterm
# For use by third-party apps.
  xdg-utils
# mdns/zeroconf stuff
  avahi-daemon
  libnss-mdns
# desktop machines might not be up 24/7
  anacron
# The following packages are the same as the packages in the print-server
# task and provide printing via CUPS.
  foomatic-db-engine
  foomatic-db-hpijs
  foomatic-filters-ppds
  foomatic-db-gutenprint
  cupsys-driver-gutenprint
  printconf
  hpijs
  hplip
  cupsys
  cupsys-client
  cupsys-bsd
  foo2zjs
# CPU frequency scaling
  cpufrequtils
# Suspend and hibernate
  uswsusp
  vbetool
