Towards a simpler desktop environment: What is the current state of the art?

[john]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2008, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
>
>> > How can I get _complete_ control over the user environment?
>
>> A slightly contrary alternative answer (I don't know much about sabayon
>> etc.) is that you could give them a very limited desktop like fvwm95.
>>
>>       http://fvwm95.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> It's not that pretty, but it's a familiar format and it doesn't offer much
>> customisation.  Actually, that's not true it offers lots, but you mostly
>> need to do it by modifying rc files and students are unlikely to figure
>> that out.
>
> You could even set the RC file and make it read-only so as to stop them
> editing it.
>
> Oh, and I should say, it has a very low cpu/memory footprint which will
> allow you more students and better performance per server.
>
> Gavin
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Thanks Gavin,

I'll keep FVWM95 in mind. I'm really hoping to hear that there is a
working solution for edubuntu using tools provided with gnome or kde.
:-> At first blush FVWM is pretty retro. I appreciate the small
footprint however.

Thanks!

John