On 04/23/2017 07:45 PM, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 10:37:53 +1200, Luke Jones
wrote: I'd like to try and crystallize some of what has been discussed so far;
"Help Me Decide" - As a button title this sounds great. Would we go with this as a single button, or would we rather have a list of desktops with check-marks, and a [Details] button next to each? "Help Me Decide" has a nice sound to it, and could potentially lead to less work?
If we went with one button, then this would be bringing up a window with a list of the Desktops (the same list as what is presented as choice), perhaps with a lets say, banner-style image next to the entry which shows a small section of the desktop - perhaps enough to highlight the look and feel?
Upon click through of an entry, the user would then be presented with a new window view which could be laid out as list on the left - separator - view on the right. The list would contain entries for the default installed items for the following tasks; - Desktop - Web Browser
Would you go as far as to include different versions of the same browser?
- Opera - Opera Beta - Opera Developer - Opera Stable - Vivaldi - Vivaldi Snapshot - Vivaldi Stable - Newmoon/palemoon - Chrome/chromium - Firefox - Seamonkey - Konqueror - Epiphany - w3m - lynx - links - ...
As far as patterns and the default selection goes Firefox is the only browser we preinstall
- Email Client - Office Suite - Music Player - Video Player - Text Editor - anything else regarded as common? IDE?
• Default shell.
- bash - tcsh - zsh - gnome-shell - mc - be-shell - ksh - mksh
I know I am growing to be a minority, but having the tcsh as working environment really makes me happy. But it still *is* the thing I type most of my commands in.
Well personally I think the default interactive shell for users should be fish, but again for all users the default shell is currently bash so there is no need to explain it to current users. It would be cool to set your default shell from the installer but this would be better in the user section where it is with yast.
• Scripting language Perl5, Perl6, Python2, Python3, PHP, Lua, R, Rust, Go, Ruby, ...
These are currently available in the "Other" well the ones with a pattern anyway again we probably don't need to explain this to new users.
• Terminal window xterm, lxterminal, qterminal, gnome-terminal, pantheon-terminal, xfce4-terminal, konsole, ...
• IRC client? hexchat, konversation, pidgeon, irssi, ...
And waaaaay beyond this scope, but how awesome would it be • Font preferences I hate serif fonts. How awesome would it be to be able to tell my installation to always choose the font I want for browser, editor, IRC, whatever and never see that ugly Times and Courier.
Again this would be better in a different section of the installer as its a different part of yast so it could be done if someone did it. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B