RE: More dselect wishes
Bottom line: suggestions can do no harm, and they may help. I agree. It's just that people keep asking for things every time, and do not even give a try at implementation... some people know they could contribute, but others think this is just like Microsoft, where you ask and perhaps someone will fulfill your wish. So it will be no harm remembering people they can always do something themselves. Also, perhaps it would be better to forward such suggestions to debian-devel or another list like that... Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra Amdocs Brasil Ltda
Re: More dselect wishes
Leandro Dutra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... Bottom line: suggestions can do no harm, and they may help. I agree. It's just that people keep asking for things every time, and do not even give a try at implementation... some people know they could contribute, but others think this is just like Microsoft, where you ask and perhaps someone will fulfill your wish. So it will be no harm remembering people they can always do something themselves. Perhaps youc ould have phrased it a bit better the first time :) It -did- feel a bit like an attack. I don't know about the others, but my suggestions were meant to be taken more in the sense of If you're working on this area and wondering what people are wanting I know as a developer (and I've worked on bunches of open-source projects it's often hard to know what the lusers want because once I've been developing I know the program so well it's oozing out my ears! Also, perhaps it would be better to forward such suggestions to debian-devel or another list like that... It might well be, and if somebody who's a deb developer had suggested it then I would have, but nobody did. Is there a suggestion box anywhere? Should there be? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Programming today is a race between software engineers striving : to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the : Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, : the Universe is winning. -- Rick Cook
Re: More dselect wishes
bekj writes: Is there a suggestion box anywhere? Yes. The bug tracking system. File a 'wishlist' bug. You could also post your suggestion to debian-devel or email it to the maintainer. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: More dselect wishes
Hello, bekj wrote: Is there a suggestion box anywhere? Should there be? I understand it's called bug report, Priority: wishlist. HTH Jiri [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: More dselect wishes
Please, people! dselect is free software, under GPL. Instead of daydreaming about a thousand features, implement them and submit the patches to the current maintainer! Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra Amdocs Brasil Ltda
RE: More dselect wishes
Please, people! dselect is free software, under GPL. Instead of daydreaming about a thousand features, implement them and submit the patches to the current maintainer! Are you suggesting that anyone who does not have the skill to implement features should not participate at all? No one has to implement the features that I or anyone else ask for. But we are not asking for bizarre, useless things. The ideas in this thread have all been heartfelt, useful indicators of things that actual developers might consider. If you don't want to implement the suggestions people make, then don't implement them. But don't get on people's back for trying to make the software better in whatever way they know how. Sheesh. A nice way to look at it is that suggestions are sort of like idea-patches. People submit their idea-patches to the maintainers, and the maintainers decide whether to apply them with patch-brain or not. Bottom line: suggestions can do no harm, and they may help. Zack
Re: More dselect wishes
On 27 Nov 1998, Gossamer wrote: - A way to enter the [I]nstall section that's automated. So I can make lotsa selections then press enter and go away. It takes a few minutes to get itself sorted out and THEN waits for me to press enter twice more (download files? make selections?). I want those last to to just default. I would hope not. There are many times when I have something selected but do NOT want to download right away. Also I've selected programs by mistake in the past and noticed this during these last 2 prompts. Maybe a config file for system/admin's personal preferances would be helpful to set this but definately not set as default. -Rob
Re: More dselect wishes
Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: On 27 Nov 1998, Gossamer wrote: - A way to enter the [I]nstall section that's automated. So I can make lotsa selections then press enter and go away. It takes a few minutes to get itself sorted out and THEN waits for me to press enter twice more (download files? make selections?). I want those last to to just default. I would hope not. There are many times when I have something selected but do NOT want to download right away. I never said as default, I just want -some- way to do it. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : The story of love is not important. What is important is that : one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are : permitted of eternity. -- ??
