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:
  x-window-system-core
Packages: task-fields
Packages-list:
  menu
  hotkey-setup
# firefox is the most popular web browser at the moment, although both
# gnome and kde offer their own too
  firefox
  firefox-locale-en-gb
  firefox-locale-en-us
# 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-l10n-en-us
  openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb
  openoffice.org-help-en-us
  openoffice.org-help-en-gb
  openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us
  myspell-en-us
  myspell-en-gb
# 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
# support for X autoconfiguration. See also the desktop.preinst script.
  read-edid
  mdetect
# sound
  alsa-utils
  alsa-base
# The following packages are the same as the packages in the print-server
# task and provide printing via CUPS.
 cupsys
 cupsys-client
 cupsys-bsd
 foomatic-gui
 foomatic-db-engine
 foomatic-db-hpijs
 foomatic-filters-ppds
 foomatic-db-gutenprint
 cupsys-driver-gutenprint
 gimp-print
 printconf
