Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
FWIW, I'm absolutely in love with Gnome3. Best thing ever happened to UI.
That said, it would be nice indeed if users had a choice during
installation, something simple like 3 screenshots to choose from.
There are around a dozen choices here - GNOME (Shell and Classic), KDE, Xfce,
MATE, LXDE, Sugar, GNU Step, Cinnamon, Enlightenment (both 17 and 16) and so
on. It is hardly going to be simple to present 3 screenshots. The DVD image
does have a few of them but it really is a waste of space to include all of
them. Just install it from the repository or download the specific spin you
want
Perhaps this has been stated badly, the issue is that if a user doesn't know
about the other options, or has small hardware, he can't "Just install" at all.
If there were just a screen to offer any one of the light weight UI choices and
warn that GNOME is not optimal for the hardware, that would do it. Only a few k
of screen code, don't need more UI options that are present now, but even the
two or three now present would be fine with thumbnails. Just default to
something which will work on the system being installed, I'm certainly not
asking for more than that. I admit that if MATE was ready for serious use when I
went to XFCE I would have used that, but it's hardly work changing at this
point, for my usage practices.
Sorry if it sounded as if we ere asking for more than warning the user if GNOME
won't work.
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