On Monday 01,February,2010 11:19 PM, Jeff Stone wrote: > Unfortunately, whichever browser you chose, a bunch of potential users > are going to be turned off. An alternative to consider is initially > install no browser, then have a post-install script that will ask the > user to decide, something like this: > > Browser: > 1. Firefox (default) > 2. Midori > 3. Epiphany > 4. Arora > 5. Chromium > 6. none > etc. > > Office: > 1. Abiword + Gnumeric (default) > 2. Openoffice.org > 3. none > > Image editor: > > Music player: > > Launcher: > 1. Kupfer > > IM Client: > > etc > > The script might not have to do anything more than a few sudo apt-get > installs. I don't know if this breaks some Ubuntu philosopy, but I think > it opens the distro up to a *much* wider audience. > > I'm sure you can't make dramatic changes to Ubiquity, and I know you > don't want the user to have to make a lot of decisions at install time, > but I'd *FAR* rather pick between a), b) and c), and know that the > config is setup properly than to have to figure out how to delete one > package and install another. You could even start with with the question > "Do you want to select packages other than the defaults (Firefox, > Abiword, Gnumeric etc)?"
I prefer to have sensible defaults in the installer, with the option of changing these later on after the installation, not during. Even if browser choice is a fairly religious thing, as long as you don't prevent people from using the browser they want to use, it's fine. -- Kind regards, Chow Loong Jin
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