On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 18:09, Igor Izyumin wrote: > Actually, it would be an order of magnitude less confusing. People don't > really understand why KDE is not an integral part of Mandrake, and they > expect all the tools to be in one place. It is very confusing when you have > a fonts panel in the Kde Control Center and one in MCC and you don't know > which one to use.
If people understand the difference between KDE and Mandrake, it will no be confusing, i.e. Mandrake tools for system (install/remove fonts), and KDE tools for KDE (aliasing, font sizes). My point was that it's good for people to learn this difference. Unless of course KDE and Mandrake someday DO become one product, then I'll stop using it. :-) And what if they decide to switch to gnome. They will have an instantly biased view against gnome because the font tools are not all in one place. Same with IceWM or whatever. And it won't be gnome's fault at all, it will be Mandrake's. > > Another possibility is to get rid of the control center and make a folder > called 'control panel' where we put both the drak* tools and the KDE config > things. It would look kinda like Windows's control panel. Now this is a much better idea. Group similar concepts together. That way if you have gnome installed, gnome tools show up in MCC (or whatever it's called), and KDE tools as well. Again though, this may confuse people... eg. why do I have to be su to change MY font size?... I still think educating the user in a very intuitive way is a better idea that handing out an easy solution (read: cover-up) that won't help him at all on another distro, or another machine, or another version of MDK. I think better documentation, more obvious documentation, and maybe more intuitive access to the 'control' tools is a better idea. Like I said earlier, it doesn't take much to make a newbie into a major linux (and/or Mandrake) supporter, but he's unlikely to do so without learning a FEW unix concepts... IMHO anyway, Austin
