Games spin?

[Christopher Stone]

On 9/20/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Christopher Stone wrote:
> > On 9/20/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >> Nicu Buculei wrote:
> >>
> >>> While I don't think including two big desktop environments (GNOME and
> >>> KDE) is a good idea (better include more games instead), using xfce has
> >>> some merits, not because of disk space but because of less CPU and RAM
> >>> consumption, leaving more free for games (IMO using twm as default is
> >>> not good, is not user-friendly enough).
> >> I am of that opinion too but it's quite surprising that we would
> >> discussing desktop environments or window managers so much. Users who
> >> download a games spin are unlikely to care much about that as long is
> >> it's usable, attractive and familiar IMO.
> >
> > So you are saying we should use KDE?
>
> Come on Christopher Stone. Just drop this pointless argument. I have
> already said that I don't consider the choice of desktop environment to
> be very important in this instace. Your instance of discussing this in
> length is only serving as a distraction from useful work like testing
> out the spin. Please do that instead.

I would rather test out a KDE or Xfce spin.  If I can find the time
this weekend I might try making a kickstart file for an Xfce version
and test that, and try to get space requirements on the different
desktop configurations.