m�ndagen den 13 oktober 2003 10.51 skrev Kevin Perros: > This message is the result of conversations whith newbies that tried to > use Mandrake 9.1/9.2 and after having been conviced and happy with the > distribution are re-using Windows more and more for a couple of annoying > and easily solvable problems. > > My point of view about newbie difficulties (which I heard FROM NEWBIES > themselves) with Mandrake is that there are roughly four issues: > 1. The package > 2. The menues > 3. The language > 4. The license > > 1. The packages are a good thing but there should be a frontend to the > package systems where we talk about apps and plugins. The apps should be > organized in a tree that should be understood by the end-user. A typical > end-user doesn't know what the "graphical environment" category could > contain, as an exemple. Even "desktop" or "Bureautique" or "Network" > should not be seen. More over, only major apps should be shown, with a > comment that only says something like "Open Office is the leading text > writer, spreadsheet tool under Linux", or "Abiword is a text writer that > is lighter than Open Office"... > > 2. The menues should be nearly empty, with only newbie oriented apps in > it. A First level should only contain the labels "Internet" (netwok > doesn't mean much for a user, and less correctness on language is > sometime a good thing), "Programs", "Multimedia, Sound" (A newbie > doesn't think about sound being multimedia), "Close The System" (session > is har to understand too). Typically a user only needs a multimedia > player, a sound player, a desktop suite, a web browser, a mail reader, > tools for burning CDs and rip CDs. > > 3. I focused hear on the french translation but it also applies to > others. Every term like "r�seau" "environnent graphique" "bureautique" > is technical for a newbie and shouldn't be used. Maybe whe should have a > "franglais" mode where we read "plugin" and not "greffon" and so on. I > understand that it is not such an important thing. Such a mode would > only be usefull for "mid-newbies" that know what is a plugin, but not a > greffon. Total newbies doesn't know what is a plugin. > > 4. A newbie doesn't know PLF, and as a consequence can't make as many > things as with windows with is Mandrake. Lincensing and Patent issues > are a mess for newbies that aren't aware of that problem. Here there is > no technical solutions, only poltical ones...
Thanks, very nice to read a mail that has the 'perception of seeing reality', i.e. any system that is to fix a newbie itch, has to use the newbie words of reality. regards guran -- Mandrake Linux Cooker 9.2 kernel-2.4.22.10mdk-1-1mdk VERSION:20030924 21:50 Only in a society that has 'a priori' defined what is the truth can the result from the evolution of life be defined false.
