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[William <wjckc79@xxxxxxxxx>]

The only problem with having a dialog for different DE options, is that 
have the installers for the DEs would increase the size of the ISO 
which we are also trying to keep down. Part of ToriOS is a merger with 
another project, I believe Melody is already pretty far into an OpenBox 
implementation. I like the idea of having front end GUI's for scripts. 
That is definitely something to look into further. Can you whip up an 
example or point me in the direction of one?

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Israel <israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I originally sent this e-mail to Ali, so I am sending it out to 
> everyone on the list now..
>
> Have you decided on DE, yet?
> I'd like to make the suggestion to use slim as the display manager, 
> and jwm + menu + menu-xdg as it runs on a 900mhz 128 MB system.  And 
> installing localepurge (this trims out all the non important language 
> things)
> ROX can handle the desktop and usbmount can automatically mount media 
> when it is installed.  Though I haven't gotten everything sorted out 
> yet on my old machine (update ROX desktop when things are plugged in, 
> JWM look-and-feel configuration), but it works on both Debian and 
> Ubuntu.  I think basing it off of Debian will make it smaller, but 
> you don't get all the goodness of Ubuntu with it :(
> I have been tweaking JWM trying to get it up to my usability and ease 
> of use standards, and so far I can do most anything on that old 
> computer!
> So, you might provide different DE installs in a dialog, for instance
>
> What kind of Computer:
> 1. Very old, very slow computer
> 2. Old slow computer
> 3. Old computer
> 4. Newer computer
> 5. Fast
> 6. Not sure
> 7. Geek Mode
>
> You could have Not Sure run a script to check the processor speed and 
> Memory to automatically pick one based on ranges.
> Geek Mode could be something like
> 1. JWM + Rox
> 2. Minimal LXDE
> 3. Full LXDE
> 4. Xfce
> 5. KDE
> 6. Show the Computer Specs
> 7. Normal Mode
>
> Just a thought I had while tweaking some stuff, so I figured I'd pass 
> it along to you in case you were interested
>
>
>
> I'll add one more thing here....
> I have been browsing through the Puppy Linux scripts that handle a 
> lot of the automatic stuff, and have noticed that it uses Xdialog 
> (which isn't available in Trusty.. not sure about 12.04)  to make GUI 
> elements for scripts, so I was thinking that some of the lightweight 
> configuration could be handled by gdialog/BASH to make it pretty and 
> light, as bash is already included, and scripts are not very big 
> (usually) and are easy to change (no recompile).
> I am still looking for a good way to tweak ROX to its fullest 
> potential... though openbox can work as well (AFAIK) with JWM tray 
> (the panel)
> --
> Regards