-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Volker Kuhlmann napsal(a): | On Fri 25 Apr 2008 01:45:02 NZST +1200, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: | |> I, for one, find it inconvenient to dive into software selection if |> all I want to do is add GNOME & KDE, or KDE 3.5 and KDE 4.0. If we're |> already presenting the desktop options for the user, I think it's less |> than friendly to say "you can only choose one" and make them add the |> other(s) via another screen. | | A multiple-selection also conveys the information that installing more | than one desktop is supposed to work. Since Linux is truely multi-user, | different users might have different ideas about which desktop they | prefer when they log in. | | How about a note saying that additional desktops can be installed via | the software selection? (Sorry if such a note is there, going back right | now to look isn't so easy.) This discussion seems to be never-ending story... It might help to define what exactly do we want to achieve/solve here. So, let's try to split problems into parts, please, as we can never solve everything at once: 1.) KDE3 vs KDE4, which one to offer? ~ - This was the original issue of this thread, do you remember ;)? ~ - Solved by offering both, can we agree on that? 2.) Selecting the "default" Desktop ~ - Even if we are always talking about newbie users, sometimes also ~ geeks could change their minds of we provide them with enough ~ information on the current status of desktops ~ - It should be clear what is which Desktop good for ~ - Has anyone done any survey about these desktops and which users ~ tend to use them? ~ - Texts or images? ~ - I've already tried small screenshots with [Show Screenshots...] ~ button for 10.3 and Image browser opening after pressing the ~ button. ~ http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Installation/Desktop_Selection_Add-On 3.) Selecting other desktops during installation ~ - Is should be clearly said that users can select more than one ~ desktop if they want to (and how, where) ~ - Selecting additional desktop(s) should be as easy as possible ~ - Yes, common user will probably not install more than one desktop ~ so we don't need to support that option in the basic desktop ~ selection dialog. 4.) Preselecting default desktop ~ - No, we can't preselect any desktop. KDE users would scream if it ~ was GNOME and vice versa. Additionally KDE3 vs KDE4 (See 1.) ~ - We could provide [I'm feeling lucky] or [I'm not sure] ~ functionality :) ;) First button would just select one, the second ~ one would show users, for instance, two (three) different ~ screenshots and let them select the one they like more (the best). ~ Users would be shown, let's say, five such choices and then an ~ average proposal would be counted. Could we agree on, at least, some of those points mentioned above, please? We really have to move on. Thanks & Bye Lukas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIEQv0VSqMdRCqTiwRAvzGAJ9gdDlIyq5dvYVoERBg07Mi8sUcyACfVMu5 oEFE+6YL+xzwPHhSnvwbE8M= =/nea -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org