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Re: [opensuse-factory] Desktop Selection
- From: Lukas Ocilka <lukas.ocilka@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:36:43 +0200
- Message-id: <480F032B.4080607@xxxxxxx>
Christian Jäger napsal(a):
Having three different options with a check-box and a radio-button for each of them is a usability overkill.
That would be a very expert dialog and (not only) newbie users will run away from openSUSE screaming.
The dialog has to have obvious meaning and easy solution.
A textual description should say something about the desktop and help users to chose their best one. It was said that one picture can say more than 1000 words but they forgot to say that you should be able to see details ;)
Having screenshots doesn't solve anything as we can't have big screenshots there. Moreover what can *one* screenshot say about a configurable desktop environment? The only thing which is visible on tiny screenshots is the color (or bitmap, but hardly) of the background. So do we want users to make their decision based on a background color? I don't think so.
Bye
Lukas
Am Dienstag, den 22.04.2008, 16:57 -0500 schrieb Bryen:
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.
Very true! +1 from me.
Having three different options with a check-box and a radio-button for each of them is a usability overkill.
That would be a very expert dialog and (not only) newbie users will run away from openSUSE screaming.
The dialog has to have obvious meaning and easy solution.
Also the short text that describes the desktops is pretty useless; please let's
replace
it by desktop screenshots.
A textual description should say something about the desktop and help users to chose their best one. It was said that one picture can say more than 1000 words but they forgot to say that you should be able to see details ;)
Having screenshots doesn't solve anything as we can't have big screenshots there. Moreover what can *one* screenshot say about a configurable desktop environment? The only thing which is visible on tiny screenshots is the color (or bitmap, but hardly) of the background. So do we want users to make their decision based on a background color? I don't think so.
Bye
Lukas
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