f10: what happened to XFCE?

Globe Trotter itsme_410 at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 26 13:56:10 UTC 2008




--- On Wed, 11/26/08, John Austin <ja at jaa.org.uk> wrote:

> From: John Austin <ja at jaa.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: f10:  what happened to XFCE?
> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2008, 7:54 AM
> On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 07:44 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > i'm sure this is explained somewhere but i finally
> got a copy of F10
> > for i386 and the first thing i noticed is that the
> desktop choices are
> > back to just GNOME and KDE -- XFCE, which i'm sure
> was there in F10
> > preview, is gone.  or am i imagining things?
> > 
> > rday
> > --
> > 
> >
> ========================================================================
> > Robert P. J. Day
> > Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel
> Pedantry:
> >     Have classroom, will lecture.
> > 
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> >
> ========================================================================
> > 
> 
> I am just doing yum install xfce*
> 
> Not booted it yet !
> 
> John
> 

But that is different from having xfce as an option: currently, it appears that one would have to install all the non-essential packages with Gnome and KDE in order to have XFCE. 

There is a torrent option available on the Custom spins at http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ is there a non-torrent option possible?

Best,
Trotter.



      




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