Re: ["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>] Re: apt-get
On 15 May 2000, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
[window manager preferences]
> Joe Schmoe User is not going to have a chance in hell of figuring out
> how to use update-alternatives to set their window manager, and now
> that /etc/X11/window-managers is silently ignored.. well, it's not a
> happy situation. :)
Actually I think the preferred windowmanager is a per-user setting. It
would be much better if we'd ask the user on his first login which wm he
liked.
<drifting where="away">Could debconf be modified to handle per-user
settings as well? This could start with the preferred language and
windowmanager, but is not limited to it. Also, some sort of on-demand
configuration for single applications would be nice (You are guided
through pgp key generation when you first use it etc.).
Simon
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