Hello, On Mar 9 12:47 Kenneth Wimer wrote (excerpt):
On 09/03/15 10:42, Johannes Meixner wrote:
What I am thinking about is: When an unexperienced user reads in whatever documentation that he must for example "start apache", then YaST should provide a user interface, where even an unexperienced user can find something that matches his intent to "start apache" where YaST does everything so that the "apache" thingy works. Perhaps such a functionality belongs to a YaST module to set up a web server and not to the YaST module to configure individual services? In this case the YaST module to configure individual services is not meant to be used by unexperienced users.
In any case, an inexperienced user should, in most cases, not be starting a web server or other complex service.
Unfortunately I used an existing service name for my example which leads to misunderstanding. I rephrase what I was thinking about: When an unexperienced user reads in whatever documentation that he must for example "start foo", then YaST should provide a user interface, where even an unexperienced user can find something that matches his intent to "start foo" where YaST does everything so that the "foo" thingy works.
There is no way to make an interface for highly complex processes that is simple enough for an inexperienced user without expecting too much of them or simplifying things down, which in turn angers every other user.
A perfect reason to get rid of the YaST printer module because printing is a highly complex process: https://features.opensuse.org/308045
I think this brings up a good topic: who is YaST made for? From a SUSE perspective it is not the home/inexperienced user
From a pure SUSE perspective there is probably no home/inexperienced user ( except they pay for SLE ;-)
What about an openSUSE perspective? Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Jennifer Guild, Dilip Upmanyu, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: yast-devel+owner@opensuse.org