Parallel desktops

[Benjamin M. Schwartz]

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Chris Ball wrote:
| Instead of (or as well as) preparing a separate disk image, we could
| prepare a Desktop activity which launches an Xfce session and includes
| some office tools, the standard NetworkManager applet, a configurable
| CUPS installation, and so on.  This could reduce our support load,
| allowing us to proceed on with our regularly-scheduled world-saving.

I agree that this is a very interesting idea, but at present it's also a
pretty serious research project.  It potentially involves Xephyr and some
crazy Sugar window management hackery.  Meanwhile, the dual-desktop
approach is /already working/.   I'm just trying to get someone to tell me
/how/ it's working, so that I can smush it into a build.

Also, on a memory-constrained system, running only one desktop environment
at a time may prove to be an important design choice.

- --Ben
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