In qua, 31 mai 2000, Denis HAVLIK wrote:
> :~>> 3) What about the three checkboxes?
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> 3) Disabled: This is new. I was asked by a blind guy if we could include
> some programs for blind and for people who have problems with hands. This
> chategory does not exist yet, but if we introduce it, it will do several
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> I repeat - at the moment, this option exists only in my head, but our
> general opinion here is "well, if we can help them withouth having to
> change too much, why not?"
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This is a truly great idea (and a nice marketing niche for Mandrake, I am
surprised no other distro has had similar concerns, AFAIK). I hope you can pull
it out.
>
> If anyone can think of other checkbuttons which would be better than
> these, no problem, but keep in mind:
IMHO, GUI's other than KDE (and Gnome) could be a checkbutton option. I have
tried them a few times, but since I do not use them - sometimes I use Gnome,
most of the time I use KDE- they are now just a curiosisty which takes some
space in my HD. Naturally, I could just uninstall them, but as Denis mentioned:
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> - Should be something what is REALLY important to one class of people,
> while considered complete junk by others.
Afterstep, Blackbox, etc. users are naturally very concerned about their
GUI's, while the majority who uses KDE or Gnome and is largely unconcerned
about them. The "majority" in the former sentence is what I gather from
anedoctary evidence, of course I may be wrong...
Another suggestion is to have Sun's StarOffice (and maybe Netscape Communicator)
as checkbuttons too. Some purists are offended by the idea of having a
non-open source program in their systems, whereas others want both the free
speech and the free beer. Since the default for the checkbutton is "no", this
could be a nice compromise between the two crowds.
Cheers,
/J.
> - things like "software for tv cards" are going to be installed
> authomatically if we can recognise the card - no checkboxes needed.
>
> cu
> Denis
>
> (*) Blind people are not stupid, but they cannot see, and the install IS
> visually oriented. I suppose they do not apreciate things like trees,
> pop-up menues and color-coding at all. Things like "click here" (ooops,
> where is here?), "upper left side", "red button" and all other
> visually-oriented stuff do not make any sense if you are blind (unless
> you have a braille terminal, in which case left-right etc. do make sense.)
>
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