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Re: [opensuse-factory] Desktop Selection
  • From: Lukas Ocilka <lukas.ocilka@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:07:44 +0200
  • Message-id: <480E61B0.1090104@xxxxxxx>
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Bryen napsal(a):
| 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

Hmm, that's true. It solves a lot.
... and additionally it adds another level of confusion (which can be
sovled by adding a note that user can install more desktops at once).

| 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.

Because when more desktops are selected, it's again uneasy and
"politically incorrect" to pick one as the default desktop (and gdm vs
kdm, of course).

Yes, *we* have a problem but we want *user* to *solver* it ;)

L.
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