On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 01:31:56PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 12:27:15PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > In many other facets of the install process questions are posed and > > reasonable defaults are suggested yet a choice can be made. I think > > the same approach should be taken to a DE. > > Certainly the question could be "Would you prefer to use GNOME > (screencapture) or KDE (screencapture) or something else? If you don't > know, just click OK." (You'd have to have X already installed for this to > work as I envision it, but you can certainly install X before picking a DE > or rejecting both, which is what I do.)
I think the config questions are all asked before anything is installed in Debian, at least anything so heavy weight as X. So, it would be nice but non-trivial to do. But some posters to this thread seem to be unaware that selecting "Desk top" during install of Debian causes -both- kde -and- gnome to be installed. So, I believe almost all of those newbies about whom we are genuinely concerned already have both on their computer. And -both- gdm -and- kdm can be told to start up either kdm or gnome. (xdm doesn't seem to have this feature.) I think it wouldn't be hard to add to display manager code a config question that is only asked the first time it is started. Personally, I'm not qualified to do the addition, and I think it would be a waste of the time a qualified person. Surely there are better things for him/her to do, IMHO. As an example to the wierd personal preferences that govern GUI selection I mention my own: I use gnome-terminal exclusively because it has a special feature of highlighting URLs and when you to control-click on a URL, it brings up your web browser. It works great with mutt. I would use gnome-terminal under kde, except that kde steps on my font selections in gnome-terminal. Having established that I'm something of a outlaier, I suggest for your consideration the thought that we are all outlaiers in the opinion of others of us. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
