will F18 allow simultaneous installation of more than one desktop?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Jul 6 22:07:47 UTC 2012


On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 12:24 -0700, John Reiser wrote:
> On 07/06/2012 12:11 PM, Jon Ciesla wrote:
> > 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. ...
> 
> > No, they can still be installed after install, or at install time if
> > using kickstart, etc.
> 
> Interactive "Customize now" of Fedora 17 allows installing KDE or XFCE
> package groups.  That is not quite as direct as being an explicit
> "Alternative Desktop", but it does work (and gdm gives you a "Session >"
> choice at login.)

This is what's changed. In new UI, there is no possibility to install
more than one desktop interactively at install time, as things stand (I
would expect you can still do it via a kickstart).
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