Parallel desktops

[Benjamin M. Schwartz]

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There have been periodic suggestions, including some by potential OLPC
buyers, that they would be more interested if the project offered a GUI
that more closely resembled the environments to which they are accustomed.
~ I strongly disagree with these people, feeling instead that Glucose is
already a highly effective environment with a very bright future.
However, it seems that some deployments, seeing Glucose as unfamiliar,
might instead choose Windows, which I hate to death [1].

To demonstrate that we too can play the same old desktop game, I would
like to construct a disk image for the XO that provides, on each login, a
choice between Sugar and a standard desktop environment.  Indeed, we may
even choose to ape Windows to the edge of nausea, like LXDE [2], or
Windows-ish XFCE themes [3], just to prove that we can.

I would like to collect all information necessary to execute this task,
which we have been talking about for months if not years.  I am told that
precisely this sort of desktop switching is already working on Ubuntu,
using gdm.  What is its status under Fedora 9 and the new joyride?  What
needs to be done?

- --Ben

P.S. I'm talking to you, dgilmore.

[1] http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/04/09/
[2] http://www.lxde.org/screenshots.html
[3] http://www.23hq.com/Vincentt/photo/2871684
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