On 22 April 2017 at 11:11, Luke Jones
Regarding the desktop selection process, I've spotted a few suggestions in other mails to this topic; - No Default - Do not change the ordering of the choices (this could spark another "war") - Provide guides in the install process which users can click on.
I like the above. In fact this could give openSUSE an edge as the first distro to provide a full offline installation medium with guides to desktop selection provided within the installer. The guides could be a button next to each selection [Details], which brings up a window of clickables that shows such things as; - what a clean default Desktop looks like, along with description of capabilities and/or highlights. + A list of the main default applications, each of which can be clicked, eg, as below. - what the default browser, office suite, and pdf viewer are plus concise descriptions of capabilities, - the default music player, video player, and perhaps image viewer are, along with concise details as above.
So basically highlight the main points of each default install selection for each desktop. It seems that if we cover the main applications and use cases in the suggested installer addition, then we could easily let new users decide what they might be comfortable with trying.
Would it be worth discussing the above in a new thread perhaps?
Kind regards, Luke Jones.
Yes, this sounds like a topic worthy of a new thread, here's the thread I think the easiest way to implement this would probably be in adding a new 'Help Me Decide?' button to the Role Selection screen That Help Me Decide button could then load up a separate window inside YaST, such as we already do with the Release Notes It should be possible to have it somewhat 'rich' with fonts and graphics, maybe even HTML'y so easy for anyone to contribute to. It's theoretically possible it could actually retrieve it's content remotely, like the Release Notes now do, which would make it even more contribution friendly and flexible considering Tumbleweed's desktop offerings will always be in a somewhat flexible state. Such an approach should also be easy to render differently or disable in Text Only installations. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org