On 07/06/2012 07:10 PM, Andre Robatino wrote:
I attempted installation using Fedora-20120703-x86_64-916dfe7-netinst.iso and
found that it only allows choosing one desktop. I normally install both Gnome
and KDE at this point and asked about it on #anaconda. Dlehman it was not
planned to support that, and regarding installing other desktops afterwards and
choosing between them at the login prompt, he said that wasn't up to them, but
personally he frowned on that practice.
I agree with David the installer should not support that and also frown
upon that practice.
I also think that once the novice end user has choose in his DE in the
installer he should only be presented with packages/applications
targeted specifically for that desktop environment if he should be
presented with options to install additional packages et al...
If it's not possible to have more than one desktop installed, it makes changing
desktops much harder (clean install?) and someone who doesn't like Gnome Shell,
for example, may well decide to change distros rather than try a different
desktop. Personally, I use Gnome, but install KDE just to have the KDE packages
available while using Gnome. Would this become impossible?
I dont think this argument holds much water.
Novice end users would be more likely to download an alternative (
encase of an live cd/usb ) from the same distribution and try it out
since they are already familiar with the the process of downloading and
( or re)installing the OS and experience users that want to run multiple
DE's can already install another one once they have successfully
finished installing the distribution.
JBG
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