gdm changes and the live cd

Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert at googlemail.com
Sun Mar 6 02:07:48 UTC 2011


Am Samstag, den 05.03.2011, 17:29 -0800 schrieb Christopher Aillon:
> On 03/04/2011 03:25 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > We no longer show icons on the desktop, so there is no immediately
> > obvious place to show the 'install to hard disk' launcher. The
> > alternatives are to make it a favourite in the shell overview, or to add
> > it as a menuitem in the user menu. Both of these have some drawbacks
> > (the favourite does not display any text, leaving the user to guess from
> > the icon, the user menu requires a gnome-shell patch). An alternative
> > I'd like to propose is to simply autostart the installer. That will make
> > it hard to overlook, and seems to nicely emphasize the main role of the
> > live cd as a convenient way to install Fedora.
> 
> Another thing we could perhaps do is have a persistent notification up.

"Click here to install Fedora on your hard drive"

/me likes this, great idea!

Regards,
Christoph




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