Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On 7/31/10 10:51 AM, Drew Ames wrote: >> Well, the current LiveCD uses XFCE and Seamonkey. Perhaps a new one >> could do that too? > > Yeah, like Jaqui said, Seamonkey fills the reqs all in one shot, which > is nice. > > I'm not entirely sold on XFCE, however. One advantage is that we already > have it mostly working. There are alternatives, though. > > William mentioned LXDE, which I've never tried, but it might be nice. > I've had a lot of fun with Enlightenment (DR17). And of course we could > go even simpler with something like fluxbox, which, actually, is what > the first few LiveCDs used. > > How do you all feel our options for Desktop Environments fit in with > what we've already discussed? > > Thanks, > > Jeremy LXDE, lightweight, maybe. a win95/98 look and feel to it with the full feature set one would expect from such a d.e.
I actually like E16 better than E17, but again, that's personal preferences. :D since LFS is as different as you can get from the more common distros, I suggest we seriously consider going with the least used U.I., Enlightenment. still easy to use, but an emphasis on the difference of GNU/Linux in general and LFS specifically just with the gui used. Elive [ http://www.elivecd.org/ ] is a deb based livecd using E17. [ to bad it requires payment to get the installer to work. ] Can anyone say OSX GUI on GNU/Linux? ;) That was my first impression of the way they configured E17. A reference distro to let people see what E17 can do without doing an install :) oddly, fluxbox, blackbox and most of the rest of the gui systems have all been problems for me, in they don't even work to play with them :\ so I can't comment on them myself. [ I tend to use a mainstream distro and look at the options before going through a build process from sources, if a mainstream distro isn't giving me a working install, it doesn't really say much for the gui. ] -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
