Fedora Desktop on XO

[david at lang.hm]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Chris Ball wrote:

>   > Now, the question I have is why we would chose GNOME over XFCE.
>   > I think there are significant differences in system resource
>   > consumption.
>
> Ed, maybe you can help here -- since this has been going back and forth
> for a while, could you help us come to/make a decision about whether to
> target GNOME or XFCE for the 9.1 desktop feature?  Thanks.

I would ask the question, "what is it about gnome that makes it so 
desirable?"

ignore the fact that it's the default desktop for several distros, on the 
XO what things can you do with Gnome that you can't do with other window 
managers?

David Lang