Xfce on the installation DVD (was Re: Regarding XFCE wiki page)

Brock Hudson escapingsummer at gmail.com
Tue Jan 18 21:48:57 UTC 2011


On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:58:11 +0100
Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Am Dienstag, den 18.01.2011, 14:49 -0500 schrieb Brock Hudson:
> > On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:34:23 +0100
> > Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Am Dienstag, den 18.01.2011, 13:12 -0500 schrieb Brock Hudson:
> > > > Would it be appropriate to include the DVD, I know by default it
> > > > doesn't include Xfce but adding 1 additional repository before
> > > > installation allows you install more than just KDE and Gnome.
> > > 
> > > BTW: This is something we want to change for F15. We just need to
> > > come up with a few suggestions to free space on the DVD in order
> > > to convince release engineering.
> 
> [snipped]
> 
> > I would like to see this included. I will still edit the wiki for
> > now, in case the release engineers don't have the same sentiment as
> > we do.
> 
> We'll see. Adding it to the wiki definitely makes sense.
> 
> > Would screenshots be appropriate? Not the whole desktop but the
> > windows so there is a visual reference on how to add that one extra
> > repository? 
> 
> If you can do screenshots, please do. IMHO this is not necessary, but
> as a long time Fedora user and contributor I am not speaking for
> everybody. I think new users will love some screenshots, but please
> make sure they don't get too large, e.g. use virtualization with
> 640x400 or 800x600 px.
> 
> Regards,
> Christoph
> 
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I've got a rough draft for including the DVD installation on the page
done. I am a university student as well so unfortunately I need to work
on some school work before returning to finish this tonight. No changes
to the page have been made yet. 


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