Il giorno ven, 07-01-2005 alle 10:48 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen ha scritto: > [Sven Luther] > > Do you really think that anyone installing debian will be baffled > > when asked to choose between the gnome or KDE desktop ? Do you > > seriously believe that ? > > Yes, I seriously believe that. I'm involved in the debian-edu > subproject, and we try to make Debian available for all pupils and > students during education. Several of the teachers responsible for > setting up the computer network at their local school will be > seriously baffled when asked to choose between gnome and kde.
This is why the single Desktop task should not be deleted (IMWHO) and checking it should automatically check every subtask. > > I bet those people will probably be more confused by the various > > server tasks. > > Absolutely. Which is why I try to encurrage redusing the amount of > questions during first time install, and hide the complexity and > flexibility from "common" users view, to reduce the cognitive strain > on the first time debian users. Us experts will find the options > anyway. > > > And you think it is easier for them to discover the KDE desktop once > > they have GDM running ? What do you imagine our current disk > > requirements are ? > > I do not believe these users _care_ if they get the KDE or gnome > desktop. I have no idea what you mean by "our current disk > requirements". I agree with you in fact other distros take a decision for GNOME or KDE as default, for example Mandrake and Suse use KDM+KDE. Just my 2  sc -- Stefano Canepa - email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www: http://www.stefanocanepa.it Three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris. Le tre grandi virtà di un programmatore: pigrizia, impazienza e arroganza. (Larry Wall)
signature.asc
Description: Questa parte del messaggio =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E8?= firmata
