On Monday 29 June 2009 16:19:13 Cliff Nadler wrote:
I think a Help me choose choice that takes you to a page with
descriptions of each spin's environment would be more friendly (and
probably more accurate as to why someone would want to use that choice.
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I agree, Help me choose +
On Tuesday 30 June 2009, drago01 wrote:
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Richard Junerj...@bravegnuworld.com
wrote:
Does archetecture get exported anywhere by javascript?
If so, it would provide a simple way to query the users' hardware.
No.
Sure it does get exported, kind of, but at
Ville Skyttä wrote:
Sure it does get exported, kind of, but at least some parsing is
required and there are cross browser issues; see navigator.platform,
navigator.oscpu and/or navigator.userAgent. Anyway, as others have
already noted, the usefulness of that info for the above purpose is very
Adam Miller wrote:
That's actually a little different, Kubutu and Xubuntu are considered
completely separate distributions from within the Ubuntu community.
That wasn't really my point (it was about their use of just one letter for
each desktop environment), but...
They all have disjoint
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Kevin Koflerkevin.kof...@chello.at wrote:
That said, Kubuntu and Xubuntu aren't really completely separate either,
they're just marketed as such. They're really just spins from the same
repository. The way they're marketed as separate is really silly.
They are
Adam Miller wrote:
But none of that really matters, and I do see your point that we would
essentially run into a similar situation from a marketing standpoint
Huh? If you follow the thread, I didn't really make that point at all! I
just said made a semi-serious remark about how having a desktop
Re the discussion at
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-June/msg01991.html
The below suggestion tries to satisfy all parties:
- it presents a neutral default
- it presents a simple choice for newbie who doesnt know what a desktop is
- it shows the range of what is available
-
2009/6/29 David bouncingc...@gmail.com:
Re the discussion at
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-June/msg01991.html
The below suggestion tries to satisfy all parties:
- it presents a neutral default
- it presents a simple choice for newbie who doesnt know what a desktop is
The I don't care looks like get me out of here!.
Not presenting a default choice is just bad usability. Those that know about
the different desktop environments should be offered an easy and accessible
way to get to them (I am not suggesting that the current page does that -
but presenting a
On Monday 29 June 2009 13:22:05 Naheem Zaffar wrote:
The I don't care looks like get me out of here!.
I don't care really scares me. If you don't care then system installation or
using with live CD is not a job for you!
Jaroslav
Not presenting a default choice is just bad usability. Those
2009/6/29 David bouncingc...@gmail.com:
Re the discussion at
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-June/msg01991.html
The below suggestion tries to satisfy all parties:
- it presents a neutral default
- it presents a simple choice for newbie who doesnt know what a desktop is
On Monday 29 June 2009 12:48:11 David wrote:
Re the discussion at
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-June/msg01991.html
The below suggestion tries to satisfy all parties:
- it presents a neutral default
- it presents a simple choice for newbie who doesnt know what a
2009/6/29 Thomas Janssen thom...@fedoraproject.org:
2009/6/29 David bouncingc...@gmail.com:
Re the discussion at
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-June/msg01991.html
The below suggestion tries to satisfy all parties:
- it presents a neutral default
- it presents a
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Davidbouncingc...@gmail.com wrote:
Re the discussion at
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-June/msg01991.html
The below suggestion tries to satisfy all parties:
- it presents a neutral default
- it presents a simple choice for newbie who
Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
I don't care really scares me. If you don't care then system
installation or using with live CD is not a job for you!
+1, and that's why the current design which is optimized for people who
don't care is broken.
Kevin Kofler
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On 06/29/2009 07:22 AM, Naheem Zaffar wrote:
The I don't care looks like get me out of here!.
Not presenting a default choice is just bad usability. Those that know
about the different desktop environments should be offered an easy and
accessible way to get to them (I am not suggesting that the
On 06/29/2009 09:35 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
David wrote:
The I don't care just links to whichever desktop is currently the
default.
People who don't care should (and will, anyway) just keep using Winblow$ or
whatever crap they're currently using. If you're going through the effort
of
Roberto Ragusa wrote:
(Funny that the order of the desktops has come out
alphabetically sorted too)
We may want to list XFCE before LXDE as its the more mature option. But I
don't have popularity stats for those, so I don't know which one is more
popular. The more popular one should be listed
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Mat Boothfed...@matbooth.co.uk wrote:
Fedora Live Image --- A link that downloads the Gnome or KDE image,
picked at random by a script. SNIP
Now its just getting silly... What a support nightmare that would be.
user I need help
fedora-member What desktop are
Adam Miller on 06/29/2009 11:31 AM wrote:
Now its just getting silly... What a support nightmare that would be.
user I need help
fedora-member What desktop are you running?
user I dunno ... I just downloaded the default
fedora-member .
Enjoy DE Russian Roulette :)
What if the
2009/6/29 Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at:
Roberto Ragusa wrote:
(Funny that the order of the desktops has come out
alphabetically sorted too)
We may want to list XFCE before LXDE as its the more mature option. But I
don't have popularity stats for those, so I don't know which one is
2009/6/29 Jaroslav Reznik jrez...@redhat.com:
On Monday 29 June 2009 17:02:36 Michael Cronenworth wrote:
Dariusz J. Garbowski on 06/29/2009 09:56 AM wrote:
Maybe call it Default then?
No, because that's offensive to some people apparently.
No, default is not offensive! Gnome Desktop Live
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Michael Cronenworthm...@cchtml.com wrote:
What if the Fedora version had a suffix?
Fedora 11G - Gnome
11K - KDE
11X - XFCE
11S - no desktop (server?)
Seems silly, too, yes, but just an idea.
Somewhat silly, but the naming convention
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Mat Boothfed...@matbooth.co.uk wrote:
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Roberto Ragusam...@robertoragusa.it wrote:
I propose:
FEDORA LIVE CD
Fedora includes many desktops. You can choose:
[ * ] Fedora Live with GNOME (default)
[ ] Fedora Live with KDE
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Niels Haase wrote:
I wonder if we could find also a way to get the 32bit vs.
64bit choice
also so smart integrated?
Like a additional radio button at the end for choosing 32bit
or 64bit.
PS: Hope that this not cause the next long discussion
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Ben Boeckelmaths...@gmail.com wrote:
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Niels Haase wrote:
I wonder if we could find also a way to get the 32bit vs.
64bit choice
also so smart integrated?
Like a additional radio button at the end for choosing
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 21:07:50 +0100,
Mat Booth fed...@matbooth.co.uk wrote:
It's a silly suggestion for a silly thread. I've never had the
impression that Fedora was targeted toward the newbie user
demographic. My MP3 swilling, DVD consuming former Windows using
friends have mostly
Does archetecture get exported anywhere by javascript?
If so, it would provide a simple way to query the users' hardware.
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2009/6/29 Mat Booth fed...@matbooth.co.uk:
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:52 PM, drago01drag...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Mat Boothfed...@matbooth.co.uk wrote:
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Roberto Ragusam...@robertoragusa.it
wrote:
I propose:
FEDORA LIVE CD
Fedora
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Richard Junerj...@bravegnuworld.com wrote:
Does archetecture get exported anywhere by javascript?
If so, it would provide a simple way to query the users' hardware.
No.
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On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:12:10 +0200
drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Richard
Junerj...@bravegnuworld.com wrote:
Does archetecture get exported anywhere by javascript?
If so, it would provide a simple way to query the users' hardware.
No.
Additionally,
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Kevin Koflerkevin.kof...@chello.at wrote:
Well, Ubuntu will have a problem at that point as well (see Kubuntu and
Xubuntu). ;-) Maybe we should write a U Desktop Environment just to give
them trouble. ^^
That's actually a little different, Kubutu and Xubuntu
On 06/29/2009 09:42 PM, Adam Miller wrote:
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Kevin Koflerkevin.kof...@chello.at wrote:
Well, Ubuntu will have a problem at that point as well (see Kubuntu and
Xubuntu). ;-) Maybe we should write a U Desktop Environment just to give
them trouble. ^^
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