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Re: [opensuse-factory] Desktop Selection
- From: Robert Kaiser <KaiRo@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:08:57 +0200
- Message-id: <4810BEA9.6030904@xxxxxxxx>
Stephan Kulow wrote:
I agree - after all you can only have one primary desktop environment and in the vast majority of cases people (can?) only use one desktop environment at a time.
Maybe it should be "System Outfit" or such, with a descriptive text which I would word something like this:
"We believe that choice is a powerful and important freedom in software technology. That's why we ask you to chose the final outfit of your openSUSE system. We offer a simplistic version with carefully predefined interface guidelines (GNOME), a very modern but still somewhat experimental variant (KDE 4) or a highly configurable and stable environment (KDE 3). You can use all our Linux software with all those choices, what you chose mostly depends on your taste."
The shortly worded descriptions of what the choices are could probably still be improved, or the overall text shortened a bit, but something in that style is what I would place above that desktop selection.
Robert Kaiser
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Am Donnerstag, 24. April 2008 schrieb Bryen:
But those are "add-ons" from the new user perspective as I mentioned in
my last post. Selecting environments as opposed to selecting software
are two different animals for them, don't you think?
Yeah, you pick one environment and then later add-ons. So you're defining
this way if your system should be a KDE system with GNOME addon or a GNOME
system with KDE addon.
I agree - after all you can only have one primary desktop environment and in the vast majority of cases people (can?) only use one desktop environment at a time.
This dialog is basically the same choice as the one on download.opensuse.org
where you choose if you want the KDE live CD or the GNOME live CD. On both
you can install addon packages, but the nature of the system is defined by
that choice. That's why Martin suggested not to name it "Desktop Selection",
but System Kind or the like and I agree.
Maybe it should be "System Outfit" or such, with a descriptive text which I would word something like this:
"We believe that choice is a powerful and important freedom in software technology. That's why we ask you to chose the final outfit of your openSUSE system. We offer a simplistic version with carefully predefined interface guidelines (GNOME), a very modern but still somewhat experimental variant (KDE 4) or a highly configurable and stable environment (KDE 3). You can use all our Linux software with all those choices, what you chose mostly depends on your taste."
The shortly worded descriptions of what the choices are could probably still be improved, or the overall text shortened a bit, but something in that style is what I would place above that desktop selection.
Robert Kaiser
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