On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 11:50 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > > I think that * update-alternatives is a good facility > > It isn't, really. IMHO it is. > > * there should be a unified method for chosing window/desktop manager or > > whatever, since it gives the users some chances to do things without much > > pain, and make easy to document and learn how things works > > No, actually a user should never be messing with the alternatives system. > Further, users don't need to know and shouldn't have to know how things > work. Ok, not the average user, but root. I don't think that Paolo wanted each user on the system to be able to change things with update-alternatives, I think with user he meant a person with Debian installed on his workstation, so this user would in fact have root privileges. > > > So, is update-alternatives the standard method? If not which is the > > standard method? > > The standard method is to actually launch the environment you want. Gdm > provides session files for this purpose, as does KDM. Xdm uses your > ~/.xsession file. Thats right, but update-alternatives would be the right place to set the default one ( just my 2¢ Marcel
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