On Fri 25 Apr 2008 10:38:44 NZST +1200, Lukas Ocilka wrote: Your summary is extremely good.
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?
Yes.
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
True.
~ - It should be clear what is which Desktop good for
You mean what a desktop is? Would someone new to Linux know that? If you mean which desktop is good for what, that's not so easy and subjective. I always thought they're all good for the same thing (application work space), but differ in personal work flows and methods.
~ - 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
I'm myself undecided about the usefulness of screenshots, but they do have some value. Your approach looks good (desktop, main applications).
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.
Agreed. The "feeling lucky" approach isn't so bad, it provokes a grin, and I think it's good to include a little bit of humour. It's perhaps too much work at this point.
We really have to move on.
Ok, I'll shut up now. Thanks for your work on this. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org