On Monday 30 July 2007 16:00, Pascal Bleser wrote:
A while ago, a few of us IRC folks have tried to push having a one-click .desktop icon that would take users directly to #suse in 10.3
While the idea seems to be divisive amongst people, I would like to know what the state of things is wrt that @Novell.
I've heard that Michl is against it, and given his position, I presume that's a "no-no" veto. Am I already known as master of "no-no" veto? :-)
If so, could someone (preferably Michl himself) explain the reasoning behind it? No reason behind it as we currently just created a first version of the susegreeter. This new susegreeter will have an icon on the desktop and bridges the distribution with the project. First version will be included to Alpha 7 - see here a preview: http://ktown.kde.org/~binner/greeter.png
But correct, I'm not very much in favor putting an extra icon for the "One-click to IRC" on the dekstop. Reasons for that: - we try to minimize the number of icons on the desktop - we believe to adress many of the "how to get in contact" questions with new susegreeter - simple icon without further explanation connecting direct to the server might cause problems - bear in mind we count serveral thousand installations a day and would invite pretty many of them to #suse - could become crowded, couldn't it?
Afraid of people misbehaving ? We have ops. Afraid of it getting "out of control" ? Make it clear that it is "community support" and not an official Novell channel, and trust the community.
Let's put it to the agenda for Wednesday's IRC meeting. M
Being very much in favour of having that one-click-to-#suse thingy, I would appreciate (to put it mildly) having some feedback and if it's veto'd, I'd like to hear the reasons.
Thanks.
cheers
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