will F18 allow simultaneous installation of more than one desktop?

[Petr Schindler]

On So, 2012-07-07 at 09:15 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 07/06/2012 07:10 PM, Andre Robatino 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.
> 
> I agree with David the installer should not support that and also frown 
> upon that practice.
> 
> I also think that once the novice end user has choose in his DE in the 
> installer he should only be presented with packages/applications 
> targeted specifically for that desktop environment if he should be 
> presented with options to install additional packages et al...

What about computers used by more users? All of them now have to use one
DE? For example: family has one computer and every member uses it. One
likes KDE, second Gnome, third Xfce. I can imagine such situation. Now,
they can install more DE on installation and then just use them. And
now? They will say something bad about developers minds and change
distribution.

I thought that possibility of choice is the biggest advantage of linux
against other systems. And also, Fedora is NOT distribution for (linux)
novices, so I can't see any reason for constraint we are talking about.

> 
> > 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?
> >
> 
> I dont think this argument holds much water.
> 
> Novice end users would be more likely to download an alternative ( 
> encase of an live cd/usb ) from the same distribution and try it out 
> since they are already familiar with the the process of downloading and 
> ( or re)installing the OS and experience users that want to run multiple 
> DE's can already install another one once they have successfully 
> finished installing the distribution.
> 
> JBG