On Monday 20 April 2009 07:13:13 pm Kevin "Yeaux" Dupuy wrote: ...
And I wouldn't say that we should leave Beagle out at all. Perhaps turn it off be default (so upon first time doing a search in the Computer or Kickoff menu, it asks you if you'd like to turn on Desktop Search) as to calm the "Beagle... it's killing my computer!" crowd that seem to have problems with it. It's already in the current Live CD install, so why take it out?
It would be wise not to let run strigi and beagle at the same time. Even if you want desktop search you don't want 2 to compete for disk IO. So, idea would be to ask user: "Do you want desktop search?" With desktop search it is hard to forget where is some email that you know only what was discussed in, or web page that you only know what was mentioned on it. Even chat on AIM that was half year ago, and has log will be at your disposal. "Do you want to connect to other computers?" You can print, listen music, watch video, or retouch family photos with a family sitting on another computer. "Do you want network sound?" (PulseAudio) PulseAudio is new, still somewhat experimental program that allow you to listen music in your home network on any computer. Many mistakes that are done in previous releases was attempt to read a crystal ball, instead of user answers. Above sample questions are still somewhat geeky, but reformulating them, or better giving definitions and examples can make difference between system designed "for geeks" and "for aunt Mildred". Besides to establish workflow based on questions: - gives smaller number of configurations to test and support - users without coding knowledge can be involved in design - geeks can get working base system that they can expand with their options Does this sound as a good idea? -- Regards, Rajko http://news.opensuse.org/category/people-of-opensuse/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org