David Baudens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Problem is that a terminal emulator is not needed for an
> office/multimedia/internet/ect. workstation. So, if people who install
> computer don't explictly say he want to use a terminal, there is no reason
> to install it. It is why Konsole is not installed when KDE is installed.
>
> Act as that seems to me reasonable
I humbly think that's not good.
Just as a side note, in Windows XP, only solution to do a real
check of the disk is to open a "Command Prompt" (that's how it's
called, and it's installed by default) and to use "chkdsk" from
there. Just to show that even users of XP ("the easy OS") need
sometimes to do things in Command Prompt - and we even encourage
them to do a chkdsk from there before installing Mandrake.
Now, there is another reason, maybe even more important: Linux
is, as Windows, still too complicated for most users, who tend to
ask their friends for support when they have a request. And these
friends will surely often ask them to open a "console" or a
"terminal" and launch whatever command from there. Hitting
Ctrl-Alt-F1 is more complicated (and won't work if they want to
launch an XFree app). Thus, a "terminal" program should be
installed and easily accessible from the Menu, in my humble
opinion (even if one is accessible from MCC, because if the
friend is a Debian fan he won't know that).
--
Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
