Re: GSoC: LiveCD

[Jasse Jansson <jasse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 2, 2008, at 8:20 PM, Justin C. Sherrill wrote:

> On Mon, June 2, 2008 6:34 am, Louisa Luciani wrote:
>
> > Perhaps we can begin by discussing the desktop environment/window
> > manager (Everyone who has emailed me so far has a different  
> > opinion on
> > this). e.g. What are your experiences? Do we want more qt or gtk  
> > programs?
>
> I don't want to drown the user in choices; the whole reason for a Live
> disk like this is to let the user get started doing stuff, and not  
> have to
> take time picking window managers and other programs.

The wm should be as small as possible for faster load times.
Blackbox or any other small wm will be fine.

Don't forget that it runs from a CD/DVD disk, and these are  
hopelessly slow,
especially when it comes to loading applications from them.




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