On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 18:25 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > There are some changes in GDM and GNOME3 that affect our live cd setup, > and will require some changes: > > GDM no longer has a keyboard or language chooser. They were mainly added > to cater to livecd must-choose-before login scenarios, but they proved > to be really problematic ever since we added them, since they cause a > conflict between multiple configuration sources (system keyboard layout > vs stored user configuration vs login screen choice, etc). Without these > choosers, it doesn't really make sense anymore to stop at the login > screen with a time login, and we should consider to just autologin > directly to the user session. The session will start in English, and > users who need a different language will have to select the language in > System Settings > Region and re-login. Keyboard configuration is less > problematic, since it can be changed without requiring a re-login. This seems pretty reasonable and is actually what all the other desktops do already. As a wishlist item, it may be nice to have an applet for language / keyboard layout switching in the default configuration (as, ew, international editions of Windows do). > We no longer show icons on the desktop, so there is no immediately > obvious place to show the 'install to hard disk' launcher. The > alternatives are to make it a favourite in the shell overview, or to add > it as a menuitem in the user menu. Both of these have some drawbacks > (the favourite does not display any text, leaving the user to guess from > the icon, the user menu requires a gnome-shell patch). An alternative > I'd like to propose is to simply autostart the installer. That will make > it hard to overlook, and seems to nicely emphasize the main role of the > live cd as a convenient way to install Fedora. As you didn't like the idea of displaying a Nautilus window with the Desktop folder contents by default, that may be the best other choice for me, though I do worry about people feeling 'compelled' to install with that setup. It does seem like a decent option, though. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop