On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:56 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> There have been periodic suggestions, including some by potential OLPC >> buyers, that they would be more interested if the project offered a GUI >> that more closely resembled the environments to which they are accustomed. >> ~ I strongly disagree with these people, feeling instead that Glucose is >> already a highly effective environment with a very bright future. >> However, it seems that some deployments, seeing Glucose as unfamiliar, >> might instead choose Windows, which I hate to death [1]. >> >> To demonstrate that we too can play the same old desktop game, I would >> like to construct a disk image for the XO that provides, on each login, a >> choice between Sugar and a standard desktop environment. Indeed, we may >> even choose to ape Windows to the edge of nausea, like LXDE [2], or >> Windows-ish XFCE themes [3], just to prove that we can. >> >> I would like to collect all information necessary to execute this task, >> which we have been talking about for months if not years. I am told that >> precisely this sort of desktop switching is already working on Ubuntu, >> using gdm. What is its status under Fedora 9 and the new joyride? What >> needs to be done? > > Unless I'm missing something, it's just matter of installing gdm and > xfce, and you should be ready to go.
Oh obviously you also need to change back /etc/X11/prefdm to run gdm. Marco _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
