On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 23:48 +0200, Lukas Ocilka wrote:
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Eberhard Moenkeberg napsal(a): | Hi, | | On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Lukas Ocilka wrote: |> Nikolay Derkach napsal(a): |> | ? ???, 22/04/2008 ? 23:05 +0200, Lukas Ocilka ?????: | |> | > What we need is to: |> | > ~ * Have nice and simple dialog understandable by less-experienced users |> | > ~ as well as all the openSUSE geeks. |> | > ~ * Provide helpful hints for less-experienced users to ease their |> | > ~ decision-making. |> | > ~ * Stay politically correct by not pre-selecting any option. |> | > ~ * Make it possible to select also another options (Xfce, Text Mode, |> | > ~ Minimal Installation). |> | > ~ ... ? |> | |> | What about placing all the selections in a circle? At least I see this |> | option as the only one which could match the third criteria. |> |> Without any irony [:) ;)] this sounds like a plan! | | No. It is just the next "political" trick on the attempt to kick off gnome | from top or to change the sequence of the two KDEs.
Not exactly, I thought about GNOME in the top right corner, KDE4 on the left, KDE3 in the bottom right corner. The selected desktop would then turn to the top direction.
I actually don't want to kick GNOME anywhere as I also don't prefer KDE or KDE3 to KDE4 or ...
|> On the other hand, I forgot to write that the desktop selection dialog |> also have to work in text-mode (ncurses). I can't imagine any (easy) |> implementation :( - Ncurses work with 80x25 characters screen. | | So leave it as it is now. The help text additions describe what a newbie | should think about - that is the most important thing.
Which 'as it is now' do you mean? The current solution in Beta1 or Coolo's new proposal? That one doesn't help the newbie user at all. Text actually dont's say anything (they actually say: we don't say anything) ;) :)
L.
I still think the best choice is to replace the radio buttons with checkboxes. I, for one, tend to choose both GNOME and KDE when I install. This means selecting one DE in this screen and then later down the line in SW, choose the second (or more) DE of choice. To me, that resolves most of the arguments or "political tricks", as one poster referred to it, and informs the new user that they CAN pick more than one DE for their installation. Why should a new user be forced to make a decision on which DE to choose when they haven't tried any of them in the past? Let them install both and decide later, through actual usage, which DE they like best. Bryen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org