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Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: what to put on the live cds
- From: "Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:45:37 -0500
- Message-id: <200904202345.38265.rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On Monday 20 April 2009 07:13:13 pm Kevin "Yeaux" Dupuy wrote:
...
It would be wise not to let run strigi and beagle at the same time.
Even if you want desktop search you don't want 2 to compete for disk IO.
So, idea would be to ask user:
"Do you want desktop search?"
With desktop search it is hard to forget where is some email that you
know
only what was discussed in, or web page that you only know what was mentioned
on it. Even chat on AIM that was half year ago, and has log will be at your
disposal.
"Do you want to connect to other computers?"
You can print, listen music, watch video, or retouch family photos with
a
family sitting on another computer.
"Do you want network sound?" (PulseAudio)
PulseAudio is new, still somewhat experimental program that allow you
to
listen music in your home network on any computer.
Many mistakes that are done in previous releases was attempt to read a crystal
ball, instead of user answers. Above sample questions are still somewhat
geeky, but reformulating them, or better giving definitions and examples can
make difference between system designed "for geeks" and "for aunt Mildred".
Besides to establish workflow based on questions:
- gives smaller number of configurations to test and support
- users without coding knowledge can be involved in design
- geeks can get working base system that they can expand with their options
Does this sound as a good idea?
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And I wouldn't say that we should leave Beagle out at all. Perhaps turn
it off be default (so upon first time doing a search in the Computer or
Kickoff menu, it asks you if you'd like to turn on Desktop Search) as to
calm the "Beagle... it's killing my computer!" crowd that seem to have
problems with it. It's already in the current Live CD install, so why
take it out?
It would be wise not to let run strigi and beagle at the same time.
Even if you want desktop search you don't want 2 to compete for disk IO.
So, idea would be to ask user:
"Do you want desktop search?"
With desktop search it is hard to forget where is some email that you
know
only what was discussed in, or web page that you only know what was mentioned
on it. Even chat on AIM that was half year ago, and has log will be at your
disposal.
"Do you want to connect to other computers?"
You can print, listen music, watch video, or retouch family photos with
a
family sitting on another computer.
"Do you want network sound?" (PulseAudio)
PulseAudio is new, still somewhat experimental program that allow you
to
listen music in your home network on any computer.
Many mistakes that are done in previous releases was attempt to read a crystal
ball, instead of user answers. Above sample questions are still somewhat
geeky, but reformulating them, or better giving definitions and examples can
make difference between system designed "for geeks" and "for aunt Mildred".
Besides to establish workflow based on questions:
- gives smaller number of configurations to test and support
- users without coding knowledge can be involved in design
- geeks can get working base system that they can expand with their options
Does this sound as a good idea?
--
Regards, Rajko
http://news.opensuse.org/category/people-of-opensuse/
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