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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org