Onsdag 23 august 2006 00:43 skrev Steve Barnhart:
First of all having what seems to be so many different ways to manage packages is becomming ridiculous and I'm hoping something's going to be done to standardize on one. Syncronizing all of them has to be crazy.
I won't comment on the backend integration stuff - but as a user you have three interfaces: YaST-qt (advanced), zen (simple) and rug (cli). Ubuntu has more or less the same - apt-get (cli), synaptic (adavanced) and their "add/remove software"-thingy (simple).
and Finally, and this is my big peeve. FIX THE FREAKIN MENUS! The organization takes WAY too much time and maybe it won't matter if slab is integrated but we do not need categories and then ANOTHER category
Having two levels of categories is a must. I have ~20 Internet-apps - if they weren't put into subcategories it would be a complete mess like most Windows menus are. Besides if you stayed current with SUSE news you'd know that Novell have developed the SLED gnome-main-menu thingy for people like yourself - and the good people at SUSE are working on a similiar menu for KDE based on usability testing and what not.
I know 10.1 was a bad apple, but hopefully this stuff is vastly cleared up.
To my recollection the menus and amount of apps on 10.1 was exactly the same on previous releases. None of your criticism except the package management frontends are 10.1 specific. Except for two webbrowsers, I don't have more than one app that does the same thing on a standard install. And seamonkey is not installed by default. I'd hate to see SUSE turn into Ubuntu. If Ubuntu with SUSE polish is what you want I think you should join the Ubuntu mailinglists and suggest to them that they polish their distro more. I like about SUSE that functionality is a higher priority than not confusing already confused people - which I consider an impossible task anyway. Martin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org