Sven Burmeister said the following on 12/10/2011 04:25 AM:
Am Samstag, 10. Dezember 2011, 12:36:08 schrieb Malvern Star:
That's precisely the point - my *average* users need to be able to install updates. They rarely need to install software. How is this even a debate?! Updating for KDE users is broken. It is a key, basic functionality. It should be of a high priority.
Works for me and my family – so I guess we are smarter than your average user. ;-)
Right. We're smart enough to be here. The "average user" is still using Windows.
Ordinary users do not use the command line. If I told them they had to learn to do so in order to get updates they would interpret this as an *insult*, and rightly so.
Funny definition of an insult.
+1 I would have thought telling users that they are too stupid to learn something new would be insulting them, but what do I know ... I only have to put up with users that demand more capabilities and control over their systems ...
Ordinary users should not be playing around in YaST, because it is too easy for them to break other things accidentally.
You mean they accidentally click on "printer" and remove their printer although they aimed for "update" or confuse "update" with "partition manager"?
Just like trained sysadmins do occasionally. Like playing "global thermonuclear war" 'cos they feel bored ...
BTW: Users with an admin should not have to update anything themselves. Users without should know what they are doing.
Indeed. It sounds like he's training users to believe that they can do without Sysadmins and hence put sysadmins out of work. -- I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody -- Bill Cosby -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org