will F18 allow simultaneous installation of more than one desktop?

Tony Molloy tony.molloy at ul.ie
Sat Jul 7 08:35:14 UTC 2012


On Friday 06 July 2012 23:07:47 Adam Williamson wrote:
> 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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