Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Anshul Jain <anshulajain@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Sankar P <sankar.curiosity@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Anshul Jain <anshulajain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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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> Please stop creating a new thread for this on opensuse-project.
>
> File individual requests for this in FATE and follow up with
> individual fate entries. Or better assign some of them to yourself and
> start working on them. As henne says often, It is YOUR project.  By
> discussing this in opensuse-project alone, none of the items are ever
> going to be implemented.
>
> We already have enough traffic on opensuse-project and I dont want to
> see new feature requests also discussed here.
>
> Thank You.
>
> --
> Sankar P
> http://psankar.blogspot.com
If I could, I would implement them. Unfortunately, I'm not a
programmer/hacker. I am not an openSUSE decision maker, I am merely an
end-user. So now, how do you propose I solve this by just adding them
to FATE?

Anshul
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