On Monday 13 October 2003 04:51 am, Kevin Perros wrote:
> 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.
1 as part of this in "newbie" mode hide the libs all together and have the
most common "options" included by default
2 i would say put the following on the desktop (maybe as a killable service)
1 icons for the most common tasks (DTP Net and MM)
2 icons for the currently mounted drives (note no icons for unmounted
drives or "invisible" ones)
3 a trio of SUID ROOT scripts to : a shutdown the system b reboot
Xwindows only (user switch) c do a full system reboot || note on systems with
a Real Live BOFH admin this trio would be yanked ||
This is just a bit that we can do better than Gates
