Hi Martin, On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 11:53 +0200, Martin Schmidkunz wrote:
It should work with a modified gdm/kdm that offers a 'login' with a one-click GNOME or KDE start. Later you are able to switch from one environment to the other with a special icon, button whatever.
You mean something like the session management (I think it is labeled that way) at login? It gives you the chance to start KDE or GNOME or anything else, but it is quite hidden at present. Yes, more or less. But instead of providing a login mask, it shows a big icon for each desktop available in the live environment (as we don't need a login for a live session).
I will create a mockup of what I mean later the day, when I'm done with my updater-tasks.
BUT: What about the others, e.g. XFCE, GNUstep...?
Japp. Maybe we should offer something like a desktop playground somewhere on openSUSE where the user can get an idea of the various desktops available.
Another point we have to consider are those people installing from a non-Live medium? Should they also explore first and choose later?
IMHO, a user choosing a non-live medium over a live medium can be considered as someone who knows what he/she is doing. As with KDE / GNOME we could go the Fedora/[U,Ku,Xu,whatever]buntu way and offering different images for different purposes: - Desktop-GNOME Edition - Desktop-KDE Edition - Server - Maximum Freedom (aka. I want it all in one) It's up to the community on whether and how much 'flavors', 'spins' etc. we offer as iso-images. Of course, the last version must offer the Desktop-Options again. Maybe Desktop-GNOME and Desktop-KDE should only be two options among others then, including Workgroup-Server, Web-Server, Firewall etc. Patterns might do this trick... Cheers, Josh -- Jörg Kreß <jkress@suse.de> YaST2 Development _________________________________________________________________ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ux+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ux+help@opensuse.org