On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 11:30 pm, in message <20050831113006.GX13457@schiele.dyndns.org>, rschiele@uni-mannheim.de wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:15:56PM +0200, JBScout [Thomas Lodewick] wrote: did I see it correct - the only thing a windows- user needs (with the jigdo- lite binary of course) is the URL of the jigdo file ? hmm - and that needs u GUI ? that can be simple
It was not _me_ that claimed a GUI is required.
It was me and I honestly think if we want most Windows users to use jigdo, then we must have a GUI.
made with a batchfile. even there I can "ask" for something, and the user can insert it.
but ok. if it is as that simple, that GUI will be made fast I think. so fast that I wounder that it isn't out there allready made by someone.
I said in an earlier mail that it is just a stupid wrapper GUI.
IMHO, any GUI system is just a stupid wrapper (even KDE or Gnome), right, fact is that most people have no clue about CLI and get completely brain dead as soon as you even mention CLI. Trying to get them to type even 1 command in means to loose those type of users (I claim those are the majority of today's computer users), especially if the iso download is extremely slow and unpleasant. A way to get the iso that is fast and can be done in 2 clicks without any real knowledge. Burning iso's is easy and wizard driven. Maybe it should be as easy as that. For me burning iso's is typing cdrecord dev=blah blah.iso and any gui really just cosmetic. Try to explain that to a hardened GUI user. I can see both sides.
is there a place where I can put the ready GUI and its source to ? or should I just send it out here to the list // your eMail ?
I could place it to my test directory if you like but why not upload to the Jigdo page to the Wiki?
I think this effort will go a long way in making us more usable. Thanks JBScout for programming it. Andreas openSUSE is SUPER: To help in the SUSE Performance Enhanced Release project visit http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/SUPER