Am 23.05.2012 18:47, schrieb Robert Schweikert:
On 05/23/2012 08:29 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
What questions should be asked?
None, that's the idea behind the point and click approach of the dialog. If we ask general questions such as "is this is single user laptop" and we shape our setting based on answers to these types of questions we will get it "wrong".
Having a few "presets" with the most common use cases, best accompanied with a short description is still a good idea IMHO. Maybe stuff like: * "Admin configured server": you need the root password for all changes -> basically like in good old times before polkit and friends: you'll need to "su -" and then use yast or whatever to change stuff. * "User configured laptop": you are allowed to connect to WiFi networks, connect printers and install package updates with your user account. For adding software repositories and installing additional software, you'll need the root passowrd. * "third preset": I have no idea what a third preset could be :-)
People are not going to like our decisions and will moan/groan/complain. Having a dialog where we can simply add a new entry if we missed something should be relatively straight forward. It also provides admins the opportunity to set things up as they see fit in a rather obvious way, rather han having to figure out "what does openSUSE doe when I answer yes to question X".
Presenting a summary (not just the description, but what permissions will be set) is probably not impossible.
The new dialog could be shown at the end of the configuration process during the install, and can be accessed from YaST any time.
I like that. And it should have the option of resetting the stuff to sane(?) defaults. Some time in the past I have clicked in the KDE4 polkit config thingy, without any clue what i was doing and it saved me from the wifi-trouble everybody had with 12.1. It now just works for me. I have no idea how to "reset to factory settings" this stuff, though, so such a feature would be handy :-) -- Stefan Seyfried "Dispatch war rocket Ajax to bring back his body!" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org