Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (95 mails)

["Francis Giannaros" <francisg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/30/07, Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am Montag 30 Juli 2007 schrieb Pascal Bleser:
> > A while ago, a few of us IRC folks have tried to push having a one-click
> > .desktop icon that would take users directly to #suse in 10.3
> >
> > While the idea seems to be divisive amongst people, I would like to know
> > what the state of things is wrt that @Novell.
> >
> > I've heard that Michl is against it, and given his position, I presume
> > that's a "no-no" veto.
> >
> > If so, could someone (preferably Michl himself) explain the reasoning
> > behind it?
> >
> > Afraid of people misbehaving ? We have ops.
> > Afraid of it getting "out of control" ? Make it clear that it is
> > "community support" and not an official Novell channel, and trust the
> > community.
> >
> > Being very much in favour of having that one-click-to-#suse thingy, I
> > would appreciate (to put it mildly) having some feedback and if it's
> > veto'd, I'd like to hear the reasons.
>
> There won't be a _one_ click to #suse - and the main reason is that it's a bit
> of suprise and explaining the concept of IRC in two lines is asked too much.
>
> What we have is here: http://ktown.kde.org/~binner/greeter.png ;(Alpha7
> material)

The only thing I would suggest changing is having "instant chat" or
"instant chat (IRC) channels" instead of "IRC channels", since that
alone is gibberish to 95% of users, or so.

Kind thoughts,
-- 
Francis Giannaros   http://francis.giannaros.org
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