On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Travis Cole wrote: > >What I had in mind to do for the local distribution that I was going to > >make was fvwm and a nice set of default menus. The default X install can > >be made a little nicer than Debian because I would only give them one > >choice .... X or no X with fvwm installed as the window manager if they > >choose it. > > Even better, I think would be a realy nicely, but not overly complicated, > setup > Afterstep, or (future version or) WindowMaker. > > And possibly have the install program tailor the config files for the > windowmanager specificly for the programs installed. > > Perhaps choose a default setup for Wharf (or the dock) with some of the most > often used apps and if the user didn't install some have it check for that and > substitute another app and an Icon to go with it. >
All of this is much too complicated for the installation that I have in mind. Nearly 100% of the installs will be people that have run only DOS or OS/2 before. fvwm is well documented and there are a gazillion examples of configuration files that allow the user to customize their setup. THe GoodStuff button panel is very useful and a simple pager with four desktops is easilly done and easilly understood by the newbie reading the config files. I would probably include TkDesk and FileRunner along with knews and XfMail or exmh for mail. I would not shove a lot of appications down the user's throat considering that the distribution is likely, at first, to be on a shared disk system with a legacy OS. George Bonser Why is it that the same people that tell us that manned space flight is a waste of money also tell us that we have been visited by aliens? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
