Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (904 mails)

[Martin Schlander <suse@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Torsdag den 24. April 2008 18:24:50 skrev Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier:
> >  I can't see a "BEST" way and doubt there is one that will meet
> > everyone's idea of what best is.
>
> True, but we can pick a way that is most intuitive to most users. My
> belief is that when you offer a user a set of choices that are not
> incompatible, they should be able to select more than one choice at
> that stage. I think it's a bit counterintuitive and slightly
> frustrating when doing the install if you are only allowed to choose
> one at that time.

Imo only geeks will want to install more than one DE. Selecting a pattern or 
two for installation later on shouldn't be a problem for them.

Using checkboxes introduces the risk that people install 2-3 DEs 
by "accident", wasting substantial diskspace and having cluttered menus and 
generally messy systems etc. 

It also has implications for other things. We use "automatic login" as the 
default. So users would have to figure out how to log out to get to their 
display manager and select different sessions. Seriously, many fairly 
experienced users have never seen k/gdm because of the autologin default.

I support keeping the radio buttons. Installing several DEs is not something 
to encourage imho.

With patterns it's easy enough to do either during installation or later for 
the few users that want/need it.
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