On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 00:53:59 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:

> intuition...yet the implication of "what the user indicates he wants in
> his menu" is that you open the *menu editor* to install software. That

I agree that the menu editor perhaps isn't the most suitable tool for
this. So we'd need easier ways to edit the menus as well :) (Think DnD,
context menus and more)

> is not intuitive, to me. The other idea, that the menus would contain
> all possible software and install whatever you click on...erm...have you
> thought how BIG the menus would be? Not to mention what to do about
> packages that wouldn't naturally have a menu entry.

This one is easy, I mentioned the _common_choices_ from the 'What to do?'
menu.

Anything else a user would like to install can be done via urpmi, or
perhaps an expert-oriented GUI front end. The reasoning being that if a
user knows the name of a different program he wants he's advanced enough
to be able to use advanced tools.

-- 
Reinout



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