Am Samstag, den 16.07.2005, 13:15 -0500 schrieb David Zulaica: > This sounds more and more like you're saying GNOME should default to a kiosk > mode > or turning the computer into an appliance. I'm not too keen on that. There > are an > infinite number of things that a user can do with their computer. Users like > doing things, but they also like doing _lots_ of things and multitasking.
I did not want so say that GNOME should default to kiosk mode. I think that it is inside todays approach of GNOME to focus on the users needs. I think GNOME should have the ability to do kios mode and other things. I don't think that GNOME should always behave the same. I see GNOME more as a basis. I think there may be many sectoral software that could switch to GNOME if GNOME allows to easily develop desktop appliances. I think a homogenous desktop is an important goal, but companies do have many different requirements. For a bank it may be nice to have a central server and an appliance that is accessible via Netboot or XDMCP or whatever. And there are software companies that want to deliver such things. I think they would be happy if they get a basis where they do not have to add much, in order to deliver a good desktop appliance. I don't think that GNOME itself should develop in that direction, but I think this concept is very good for many purposes and GNOME should not ignore this. (I also copy my answer to gnome-marketing, maybe there are also some thoughts about this...) thilo -- blog: http://www.alternativ.net/~vinci license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/de/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
