Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (904 mails)

[Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@xxxxxxx>]

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.

> 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.


Viele Grüße
Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoenke@xxxxxxx, em@xxxxxxx)

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