any chance of a F7 spin using xfce?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Apr 19 16:58:12 UTC 2007


Globe Trotter wrote:
> --- Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 
>> Globe Trotter wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was wondering if there are any plans of getting a F7 with xfce just as
>> there
>>> are for gnome and KDE? I guess I would be interested because XFCE is light
>> on
>>> the resources: the current way of installing fedora and xfce does not work,
>>> because you get a lot of gnome junk regardless of whether you choose to
>> install
>>> it or not. 
>>>
>>> Any plans on making life simpler in F7? Sort of like xubuntu: I am
>> interested
>>> because the response of xubunut vis-a-vis ubuntu is something to be seen to
>> be
>>> believed!
>> This are no plans to as of now. If you are interested you can join 
>> fedora-devel list and start working on it.
>>
> 
> Or go to xubuntu, i guess. Fedora seems to be in serious backward pedal: note
> that they got rid of automount and editing of removable media in /etc/fstab for
> absolutely no reason, except to make it only for fluffy users, not people doing
> serious  computing. 

This has nothing to do with XFCE based spin. Auto mount devices works 
fine for me on FC6. If it doesn't work for you file a bug report. 
Mangling /etc/fstab to do automatic mounting of devices had several 
problems described in detail in hal list in freedesktop.org amoung other
places.

Rahul




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