On to, 2011-04-21 at 16:20 +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> writes: > > For example, Thunar works perfectly fine outside Xfce, but you don’t > > want to show it in KDE or GNOME. > > Why not? > > Some users may prefer it to the "standard" app for the desktop > environment they're using.
While we perhaps should make anything possible for our users, unless it requires too effort from us, that does not mean that all users should be confronted with every available option all the time. Having to choose from a very large set of options, most of which make no sense to you, makes people confused and unhappy. That's not restricted to the stereotypical uneducated "person from street" kind of user, either. It also applies to the hardcore hacker, when they do something they're not already familiar with. The hacker might be better at dealing with the situation, having had more experience with it. Choosing from a fully populated "Debian" menu is a bit like choosing from a menu in a restaurant in a foreign country, when you don't speak the local language. There are likely to be a large number of choices, and a few of them use a word or two you recognize. You either choose something based on those few familiar words (but they might be used in strange ways), based on luck, or based on asking for help from others, perhaps the waiter. It does not matter how good a chef you are, if you don't understand the langauge. If you do this often enough, you'll learn what everything is, but at first you might have only banana dessert and potates boiled in chocolate. (Which might be delicious, but surprising, when you thought you were having soup of the day and pasta with meatballs.) -- Blog/wiki/website hosting with ikiwiki (free for free software): http://www.branchable.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1303373205.2488.13.ca...@havelock.liw.fi