Did you evaluate IceWM with a Windoze theme? It doesn't have desktop icons, but it shows a toolbar and a main menu. You can configure IceWM through a central setup file and deny access to any functionality you don't want your users to fiddle with. IceWM has a small footprint, it starts up fast and is not bloated at all.
On 17-Jan-03 Louis Sabet wrote: > ... > I have gone through various GUIs, and none of them really meet the > grade. I > have tried WindowMaker, BlackBox, Gnome, KDE, FVWM, FVWM95, and > finally > FluxBox (which is a derivative of BlackBox), and with which I am > reasonably > happy, however I know for a fact that my users won't be (i.e. it > meets my > requirements, but not all of theirs). > > The main windows-esque features my users will be looking for are: > > Fonts - and lots of them. I've installed the windows fonts, but > still it > doesn't look as "nice" as windows does - any suggestions here? > Alt-Tab - Fluxbox handles this nicely. > Task-bar - KDE/GNOME have this, but are too bloated and would > involve > hardware upgrades which I would like to avoid if at all possible. > Fluxbox > has a task-bar sort-of, but only displays minimised windows. Our > users have > a tendancy to open all their millions of windows at once, and leave > them > that way, flicking between them using the taskbar. With fluxbox > they would > have to resort to alt-tab which isn't anywhere near as convenient. > ... -------------------------------------------- Wouter DeBacker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 19-Jan-03 00:16:25 (SuSE Linux Xfmail) -------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com - A 128-bit supercerts will allow you to extend the highest allowed 128 bit encryption to all your clients even if they use browsers that are limited to 40 bit encryption. Get a guide here:http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0030en _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
