On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Aschwin Marsman wrote:
tested. Quoting betterdesktop.openSUSE.org: "Over the past year, we have conducted many usability tests on different parts of the KDE and GNOME desktops."
That's not my point, I know they did test on both KDE and GNOME, but I can't see ximian as an unbiased entity when you are doing those tests.
Please note, that the test persons were volunteers (not Novell/Ximian employees)!
Have they developed improvements for KDE since Novell took them over?
That's not their job - they are supposed to work on GNOME.
Is Novell's desktop future on GNOME?
No. Neither GNOME nor KDE are the privileged Novell desktop environment - they both have the same status.
But what about specific installation tooling and new applications: I don't hope Novell is creating a Yast specific for GNOME, one for KDE and one written in MONO?
Please, don't try to act naive! YaST isn't bound to KDE or GNOME - why should we reinvent the wheel?
It could be done off course by using something like an observer like pattern: create the functionality (backend) once and have different views on it using a GNOME/KDE/... frontend. What are the ideas on this for the OpenSUSE project?
As a usability example: I would like to have the ability to make some improvements (in my opinion) to e.g. you: When downloading the patches and everything went will I don't want to press the Finish button myself, I would like a checkbox that gives me the option to specify the behaviour I described above. When will development be open for these kind of issues, and who will decide if a proposed patch will be included or not?
The development is already open - just use Bugzilla to interact with the YaST developers on this. But please note, that there will be quite some redevelopment on the YaST2 Packagemanager + YOU for 10.1... Regards Christoph