Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ux (89 mails)

[Lukas Ocilka <lukas.ocilka@xxxxxxx>]

Martin Schmidkunz wrote:
> Benji Weber schrieb:
>> There's also this travesty of a screen.
>> http://news.softpedia.com/images/reviews/large/opensuseinstallguide-large_013.png
> 
> I agree with that.
> But so far we had no idea how to avoid this dialog without pissing off
> either the KDE or the GNOME guys.
> Basically both desktops have their advantages and disadvantages.
> So one solution could be to have one GNOME-openSUSE and one KDE-openSUSE
> and you have to choose the desktop before you download the distro.
> But this doesn't seem very elegant to me.
> Do you have any ideas how to solve that?

Last time I did the 'Installation Review', I've found out a solution for
having GNOME and KDE (and other choices) there.

Requirements/Additional Info:
1.) We need to have both of these choices there...
2.) Users are forced to decide even without having any clue what
    GNOME/KDE is.

To make this decision easier for users, there could be a link or a
button near every selection that would open a pop-up window with more
information about it.

Such as:
  * More textual information what is which desktop good for, which
    are the default desktop applications, history of the desktop...
  * Screen-shots of the desktop containing also those default
    applications (Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, KMail, ...)
    also with general screen-shots of a themed desktop.

N-joy!
Lukas

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Lukas Ocilka, YaST Developer                     (xn--luk-gla45d)
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