will F18 allow simultaneous installation of more than one desktop?

Jon Ciesla limburgher at gmail.com
Fri Jul 6 19:11:47 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Andre Robatino
<robatino at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> I attempted installation using Fedora-20120703-x86_64-916dfe7-netinst.iso and
> found that it only allows choosing one desktop. I normally install both Gnome
> and KDE at this point and asked about it on #anaconda. Dlehman it was not
> planned to support that, and regarding installing other desktops afterwards and
> choosing between them at the login prompt, he said that wasn't up to them, but
> personally he frowned on that practice.
>
> If it's not possible to have more than one desktop installed, it makes changing
> desktops much harder (clean install?) and someone who doesn't like Gnome Shell,
> for example, may well decide to change distros rather than try a different
> desktop. Personally, I use Gnome, but install KDE just to have the KDE packages
> available while using Gnome. Would this become impossible?

No, they can still be installed after install, or at install time if
using kickstart, etc.

-J

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