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
