Parallel desktops

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:56 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
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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].
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> 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?

Unless I'm missing something, it's just matter of installing gdm and
xfce, and you should be ready to go.

Marco