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Re: Needs

> 
>    What if Linux is boot graphically?  Would it be possible to look in
> the home directory to see which desktop to run?  Is it possible to
> choose KDE vs Gnome vs X from a graphical login?
> >

Not with XDM.  It should be possible with KDM and its Gnome
counterpart.  With XDM we would be restricted to use the same tricks
used if the people had used startx

> >About window managers assumming the user had not selected KDE which
> >one do we choose as default: FVWM2 with 95 looks, WindowMaker or
> >AfterStep?  Enlightenment will probably not be ready for prime time.
> 
>    Which is stock?  Stay as close to stock as possible unless there is a
> arguable functionality reason to change it.  Looks, in my opinion, are
> not a reason...  Keep in mind that I will have to get screen shots of
> what ever we decide to support.
> 

I have met people using RedHat and being disapointed when dropped into
a desktop looking like Windows95.  Perhaps it would be better to give
something making them feel farther away from Windows.  But I think it
is better to keep click to focus because that is what they are used
to.  Change look but not feel

-- 
			Jean Francois Martinez

Project Independence: Linux for the Masses
http://www.independence.seul.org