Hi!
I think this is an interesting thread. A few ideas:
1. make install of progrms directly available from the menu. With a right click one can administer menu items. ine thing is to under eg word processing, you can add a menu item like koffice, if it is not there, and adding the menu item will also install the "program". This would be easily understandable for a newbie. It is directly related to the main tool that the newbie (and others) use, namely the menu.
Administer menu items could also let the menu item go away - and that would then uninstall the packages too.
I like this idea of an "installer menu". But to avoid confusion, do not add it to the standard menu (its size would be too important). In addition to rpmdrake, make it a new menu in the bar, with packages sorted using "Mandrake choice" or other (the sort order could be configured with a right click). It could then open rpmdrake to install them for example. This would be a good way to show rpmdrake to the newbies.
Eric
