will F18 allow simultaneous installation of more than one desktop?

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 16:43 -0400, Chris Lumens wrote:
> > Idea: the installer branches just from the beginning:
> > 
> > -Easy install (only installs Gnome)
> > 
> > -Advanced install (shows a big warning screen about installng multiple
> > DEs, could be confusing, not recommended for newcomers, your pet could
> > die, etc etc ).
> > 
> > bingo, both sides pleased.
> > 
> > See? It wasn´t so difficult after all.. :P
> 
> (1) In our experience, most people will decide they are advanced (they
> genuinely think they are advanced, or don't want to feel like they're
> missing something, etc.) so there's little point to dividing the
> interface like this.
> 
> (2) Maintaining two interfaces is a nightmare.
> 
> (3) The time for making major design decisions was the first half of
> 2011, when we started talking about this.

Note that Mandriva used to have this kind of 'simple/advanced' design in
its installer and progressively dropped all the 'advanced' dialogs, for
precisely the reasons Chris suggests.
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