Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (109 mails)

[Anshul Jain <anshulajain@xxxxxxxxx>]

Edit: I'm cross-posting my comments as I feel that this deserves a
thread of its own, independent from the originating thread which was
on another issue...

Couple of my observations on how we as a community can make openSUSE
better:- (Disclaimer: This is for the normal user and not the expert)

1. Simplify zypper: The whole upgrading procedure where patches and
packages are treated separately have to be streamlined. It is a tad
confusing for the normal user. Mandriva provides a very elegant and
neat way to upgrade the system through their mdkonline applet.
Something we should look at as well

2. Package Management through YaST: The Qt version rocks, but the
GNOME version simply is sucks.

3. Better bootsplash experience by using Plymouth

4. Simplify the repository structure. There are too many confusing
ones, Factory, STABLE, UNSTABLE etc...the KDE guys are working on
simplifying it...I guess. GNOME needs simplification.

Many mistake Ubuntu to have the best user experience distro....but
that tag actually belongs to Mandriva, which still has managed to keep
itself alive (I don't know how longer though). Some of their tools are
very good like msec (Mandriva Security), menu layout for GNOME and KDE
which is unique and very consistent. We could take some cues from
there and add the requisite polish on top of it.

I'm sure some of these suggestions will be flamed...but I'd appreciate
if this not be taken as criticism, but as suggestions to greater
improve the distro that we all like.

-Anshul
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