On Aug 27, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Thursday 27 August 2009, Joey Hess wrote:I'm very suprised to see syslinux menus being used to offer a choice amoung desktop environments.It was discussed extensively when the functionality was implemented. Most people were happy to at last have the option in *some* form, eventhough far from optional. It is no more than a logical extension of thepre-existing option to preseed the desktop choice using desktop=X. I'll be happy to remove all the "gunk" once there is a proper implementation of desktop selection. EOD for me.
I've been staying out of this discussion ("Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and go well with ketchup.") but it seems to me that there is an easy option that everybody is overlooking.
Why not a step in the installer menu (perhaps immediately prior to tasksel) -- only displayed at "expert" priority -- that gives you a selection list of available desktops -- pick one or more? It would then set the same options that pre-seeding would have set if it had been used.
The introductory comment might say something like "The default is gnome. If you don't understand the question, gnome is a good choice."
There's probably something I don't understand that makes this impossible, but it's *got* to be better than the present stand-off, it seems to me.
Rick