Miles (aged 7) has Redhat 7.3. I installed KDE and set it as the default, and he has always logged in as default and got KDE. Yesterday he was fiddling and chose gnome from the dropdown box. It just went back to the login screen and waited for another login. I figured out that gnome was not installed and told him thats why the gnome choice did not work.
He asked (logically) "why is the choice there if its not installed?" This is a damn good question. Why do Redhat and other distributors include a graphical login choice for a window manager that is not even installed? (As an aside, apt-get install gnome-base did a fine job!) -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
