On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Anshul Jain
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org