On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 03:59, CP Hennessy wrote: > RalfGesellensetter wrote: > > iceWM is maybe a good replacement for KDE, but having more than one on > > the CD could be confusing. Rather swap KDE with Gnome - but then I'd > > still go for kde-edu which leads to contradiction... > > IceWM is not bad, but if you want to give the users something close to what > they are used to, then having icons on the desktop for them to click on is > needed. IcwWM does not seem to do this natively :( > However idesk can do this - even if it has limited features and not the most > robust.
IceWM is just a windowmanager. It can be used with Gnome, and probably KDE, but it's not a full desktop, so it can't really replace either of them. IMHO there are 3 desktop options; Gnome, KDE, and xfce. There might also be some nextstep based alternatives, but I haven't looked at them, and I dunno if they have the user-base to bother looking at them. Of the three, xfce is the best "low end" solution. If you guys are more concerned about how they look; by default KDE and Gnome are both windows-like, wheras xfce4 is more OSX like. All of them could be tweaked to look more or less like something else, but I dunno if you really want to expend the effort. -- Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
