Jiri Srain wrote / napísal(a):
Hi!
Dne úterý 24 duben 2007 01:48 Martin Schmidkunz napsal(a):
Hi Francis,
thanks for your feedback :-)
* How exactly will the profiles work? I can see the usecase for when you switch between locations and don't want to enter the same things, but will a profile be compulsory to get things working?
In my opinion it will. Apple is successful with this concept, so why won`t we be? :-) It shares two adavantages: * people don`t need a lot of experience to get their tasks done * nonetheless, we give the user the possibility to configure this profile according to his needs as well
For laptops (or computeres moving along networks) we already do have a solution - NetworkManager. Well, it has the limitation that it has to use DHCP (which is IMO no limitation for 99% of users), but it works without any interaction from the user (I can even connect my laptop to a network I never connected it to before without having to configure anything as root).
For advanced users we also have a solution already in place - SCPM. And not only does it support different network configuration, but you can change configuration of other stuff as well (eg. mount different NFS shares depending on the profile).
I don't see the need to implement 3rd solution for this problem - the current ones are IMO sufficient. If there are usability issues with SCPM, we should probably concentrate on fixing them instead of delivering one more solution.
Jiri
IMO Martin suggested to use YaST as SCPM frontend (there is no one as I know) for creating/editing profiles. Michal -- Best Regards, Michal Zugec Software developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SuSE CR, s.r.o. e-mail: mzugec@suse.cz Lihovarska 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 960 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 296 542 374 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-usability+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-usability+help@opensuse.org