f10: what happened to XFCE?

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Wed, 11/26/08, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:

> From: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
> 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, 7:50 AM
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
> > > > 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?
> >
> > I don't recall the package listing in the DVD
> image including these
> > options in the preview either. Xfce hasn't been in
> the DVD images
> > for quite a few releases now. Use the Xfce live cd or
> do a
> > post-installation.
> 
>   seriously?  i did a number of installs with the preview
> DVDs, and i
> distinctly recall the desktop choices being:
> 
>   * gnome
>   * kde
>   * sugar
>   * xfce
> 
>   am i just on drugs or what?
Nope, I saw those choices too. Am I on drugs too?

> 
> rday
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regards,

Antonio