icewm
is a very good choice to give unexperienced users.
It behaves like most of them expect, while being fast
and not confusing with unnecessary details. icewm-gnome
has also gnome support in it, but also adds the confusing
gnome-menus. As of woody it also has a standard theme, that
scares most people away from it in my experience. This all
gets better with putting the following lines in the
/etc/X11/icewm/preferences
:
Theme="warp3/default.theme" ShowGnomeAppsMenu=0 ShowGnomeUserMenu=0 ShowKDEMenu=0 GNOMEFolderIcon=0
Also recommendable is to put the most important programs to
/etc/X11/icewm/menu
and /etc/X11/icewm/toolbar
and to point the users to /usr/share/doc/icewm/html/icewm.html
.
I'd be glad if someone could tell be how
one could at least get rid of those menus and place an normal
Debian menu there. (Or stop it always starting KDE-programs instead
of working ones, or if at least anyone could tell me on which
package to file a bugreport, that KDE-programs cannot parse
nontrivial /etc/printcap
).