= No focus =
* Directly providing a polished distribution for non-technical end
users
with this I wont be openSUSE anymore...
Indeed that is simply - unacceptable.
I second that, openSUSE has a large non-technical userbase as one can easily see by browsing through the opensuse users list or the forums. In fact, back in the day S.u.S.E. had a reputation of being easy to install and use (before Mandrake and then Ubuntu existed). Apart from that, some contributors might actually be motivated to create a polished product which is also usable by "non-technical" end-users. This proposal smells a lot like Fedora (and its "Spins"), just without the "bleeding edge" focus.
I think there may be a problem because of the word "polished". We need a clear definition. For me the minimum standard is that: 1) the UI all works - the buttons & controls all do what they look like they should do 2) the UI is "obvious" - that if you have something you want to do and which this package says it does, then you can see easily where to get to the right functions 3) the UI is consistent - same colours & fonts everywhere, things line up & behave the same way (e.g. shading unavailable controls, round corners, border style) 4) the main / most common setup & config options are defaulted sensibly for openSUSE and are changeable through the UI 5) it installs out of the box & will run after install without error 6) errors are caught & reported rather than being silently ignored or causing crashes 7) it integrates nicely, e.g. "funny" languages (e.g. utf8 characters, right-to-left), file open dialogues, keyboard layout, sound system I'm sure others can provide an expanded set of stuff which has been wrong with packages they've used... None of this is new but many people forget to check when launching a package upon the "public". David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org