Or you can just yum install xfce* and work your way to nirvana from there. Sebastian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Sebastian Silva wrote: > >> Here's a delicate scenario that I see: >> Inevitably, when comparing the XOs running Sugar to those running >> Windows for evaluation (this is happening *right now*) - MMSs (that >> is, Microsoft&Ministries) will argue not only on GNU+Linux vs. Windows >> technical merits, but also the GUI will come up as a possible fatal >> comparison. >> So techies will then install XFCE for comparison, perhaps they'll >> request F10 for that... >> Only XFCE is currently vanilla on the repositories and fancy >> integration like volume and brightness, DPI, etc isnt well integrated >> at all by default, as well as many useful separate widgets for >> networking, battery status and so on. >> Its funny: In this scenario, you can actually share more on windows >> (via file sharing) than on linux (at least with the gui). >> So here's an idea Homunq gave us yesterday: >> This is the perfect project for a G1G1 hacker. Probably one already >> did it. Lets challenge them, via OLPCNews, to release "pimp up xfce on >> F9" procedures (maybe even scripts and themepacks) - so that it is as >> simple and as trouble free to install a working, beautiful, lean and >> mean XFCE4 on the NAND that we can proudly compare with sluggish >> windows on the SD. >> Please could we request this to wayan and spread it? > > the biggest problem has been in getting started (getting a system > image that could boot and use the normal distro tools) > > debxo is a good example of a bootstrap for debian, it is a set of > scripts that use the standard distro package tools to create a system > image that they can boot into and start tweaking. what it's missing is > a good way to let the users extract the results of their tweaks to > submit upstream. > > if you want the type of work you are looking for to happen on Fedora > someone needs to package up a similar set of scripts. > > > >> 2008/12/5 Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Carlos wrote (regarding Sugar on an XO): >>>> >>>> Apps need to be sugarized. >>> >>> This is true when Sugar is the primary interface of the target user >>> population. But the "Subject" of this topic is XFCE. I am going to >>> make the assumption that an user sophisticated enough to use XFCE >>> will be sophisticated enough not to need the simplified GUI that >>> sugarization provides. >>> >>> I myself have had reasonable success installing Linux applications >>> on my XO, then launching them from the command line. [And launching >>> from Terminal bypasses Rainbow's restrictions on applications.] >>> >>> I keep wondering, considering Moore's Law and the availability of >>> netbooks, why shoehorn specifically Sugar (and the XO) into >>> competing for the "traditional_Linux_interface" laptop role ? >>> >>> mikus >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Devel mailing list >>> Devel@lists.laptop.org >>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel