scott chevalley wrote: > I took a look at it last night and I immediately felt I knew the reason > behind the redesign: Newbies. If you stand back and look at it from the > right perspective, it looks like an attempt to copy the XP login > manager, only instead of having the Icon's and names on the background, > it's all in a window.
Note that XP only looks like this until you have joined it to a domain (only possible with XP pro), in which case it looks almost identical to win2k (except for the window decorations). This (being a domain member) is usually the case in any large network, so we (thankfull) only see that toy screen once here. I don't want my display manager to look any more like winxp home by default, we're going to end up looking like RH 8.0 (which some people here call, out of irritation with the interface, Linux XP). If Mandrake is aiming for the corporate desktop, then for a corporate setting (possible tie this to using LDAP/Winbind as auth option?) I would prefer a minimal but professional dm, which is more or less what I got with kdm after removing the user list. And kdm does have a user list which looks pretty good anyway, no need to replace it. So, what are the goals? Buchan -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
