Hi David,

David Powell píše v po 08. 02. 2010 v 11:41 -0800:
> On 02/06/10 11:24, Milan Jurik wrote:
> > [email protected] píše v so 06. 02. 2010 v 09:05 -0800:
> >>> Does it mean it will be running on installed system by default? Why?
> >>> Haven't we the boot process slow enough already (so we have so cool
> >>> features like not saving crashdump by default to speedup system
> >>> boot...)?
> 
>    This doesn't start at boot, it's an application that starts when you
>    log in to the Gnome desktop.  Any user can turn it off from the Gnome
>    Startup Applications preferences dialog.
> 
>    As for what it does, it closes the loop between the user and
>    identifying problems with their system.  It currently aggregates
>    status information from SMF services and provides notification if any
>    of them fail.  The user can click on the icon and be guided to a UI
>    that will let them diagnose and hopefully fix the problem.  In the
>    future we would like to expand it to report on FMA faults as well.
> 

Huray, now I know from where that new notification icon is comming :-)

>    It's rough around the edges, but much better than assuming the user
>    is a seasoned sysadmin who knows which tools to use to figure out why
>    their system is misbehaving.
> 

Thank you for detailed explanation. It is good that it is for Gnome
desktop only, not impacting e.g. server setups. It could have still some
negative effect on some reviews/benchmarks but on the other hand it
brings some positive effect on user level observability. If turned off
on LiveCD, the negative impact will be smaller.

The only problem which remains - how should typical user know what all
he/she could/should turn off? But I agree it is not specific to VP. Once
again we are back to possibility to deliver "post-install" configuration
dialog with set of features which are optional.

Best regards,

Milan

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