Brief diary of an F-7 installation

[Andras Simon]

On 6/19/07, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> Andras Simon wrote:
>
> >> 2. There should be an honest choice given between Gnome and KDE.
> >> There is something sneaky about the way Fedora tries to get Gnome in.
> >
> > I remember being offered the option to install Gnome, KDE or a third
> > DTE (Xfce?). I chose none, and got it :-) Which, btw is a definite
> > improvement over older RH/Fedora installs. So I don't see any Gnome
> > conspiracy here.
>
> Where were you given that choice?
> As far as I can see, you get no choice at all
> unless you opt for a Custom Choice of packages
> (which itself is non-default);

I must admit, I did. And probably so should everyone who knows what he wants.
Those who go with the defaults should not complain that the defaults
are not quite what they expect - as long as they're safe and sane
ones.

> and then you have to choose the Desktop bundle,
> uncheck Gnome and check KDE.
> It's easy to overlook the fact that Gnome is checked in by default.
>
> Why not give users a simple choice with radio buttons?

There is a simple choice with checkboxes, if you chose to have choices.

Andras