On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Kaya Saman<SamanKaya at netscape.net> wrote: > Sriram Narayanan wrote: >> >> All: >> >> Something that we could consider adding to Belenix would be what I >> call "install hints" that the shell in Ubuntu provides. >> >> For e.g., in Ubuntu, if I were to try to run "screen" and if it were >> not installed already but present as part of a package called >> "screen-utils", then the Ubuntu bash shell would display the message >> similar to "screen is not installed yet. Run apt-get install >> screen-utils, and then screen". >> >> I just had an IM conversation with Moinak, and he felt that power >> users would not like this feature. >> >> I think, however, that if we could selectively turn off this help, >> then we could keep power users as well as newcomers happy. >> >> What do you think ? >> >> -- Sriram >> _______________________________________________ >> belenix-discuss mailing list >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss >> http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss >> > > Hmm.. interesting! > > I mean if something isn't installed in Linux (distro generic) it just says > "Not found" from the shell. However if you then went to the package manager > and say did apt-get install and then didn't result anything - you could just > check the cache by running: apt-cache search software which would then say > it was like Gnome DE for example would give you: ubuntu-desktop as result. > Alternatively yum on the RH line of distros has something similar where you > can just do yum search or whatever, then issue yum install. > > I am not sure really with that as I do understand that if the package is > combined in a group package like my gnome and ubuntu-desktop example then it > maybe useful for in-experienced users (myself included even perhaps). > > Mixed feelings but how about we get a demo working and see where that takes > us??? > > To get a draft drawn up and implemented, can be as buggy as hell no probs > but just something to see in action! > > That's my view! :-) >
:) I've seen this suggest feature help some of my colleagues who're Windows users trying out Ubuntu. Recently, when I tried OpenSuse, I saw that it gave similar help for /usr/sbin/foobar apps too (requring the user to launch that app using sudo) > Kaya >
