Am Montag, den 27.04.2009, 18:45 +0200 schrieb Roberto Ragusa: > And what about a "no desktop" option too? Wondeful! Everytime I install Fedora from the DVD and uncheck GNOME, all applications and even the system-config tools, for some reason big parts of GNOME get pulled in as dependencies (I think that even applies if I uncheck everything except of "Base System" and "Hardware drivers"). This choice would be extremely useful if you wanted to install Fedora without X(it may not be used for server installs, but some crappy old laptops run better without X) and without building your own spin with Revisor. But I think that someone who uses a linux based OS for the first time will not know what choice to make (I remember how I didn't know, back when I first used linux). And GNOME is certainly not the wrong desktop for new users. It's stable, simple and the system-config apps look native. Of course KDE (and everything else) is good too, but at the moment it's (in my opinion, KDE 4.2 brought great improvements but it still crashes from time to time) not stable enough (that will change). Other desktops like XFCE are great too, but why should we choose them over GNOME? Users who know about the different desktops will make their choice anyway, even if they don't have their own LiveCD (I'm thinking of LXDE and e17). I don't think new users can't learn about all the desktops when they install Fedora, but I hardly think they want. All desktops are pretty well supported (in terms of updates and integration). What I think would be best is keeping the GNOME Live-CD as default installation media and add all the other choices to the DVD installer (and call it DVD installer on fedoraproject.org, not just "Upgrade from an older version"), as far as I can see our DVD only has 3.5 GB, so another two or maybe even three little desktops and an "Advanced..." menu could easily fit into the remaining MB's. I think an "Advanced..." menu would be better than just choose "Customize now" and run the package selector, because if you choose a desktop from the install DVD it sometimes uses odd programs (for example kpackagekit and gnome-packagekit at the same time). That could be prevented by a menu, or we change the behaviour in the package selector itself and make the various apps explictly dependent on the checkable desktop.
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