Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I really wonder whether this concept of user roles are really that strange > or stupid that all posters seem to ignore this idea. (Feel free to teach > me in private to keep silent with those stupid ideas.)
Personally, I think it's probably a very good idea. Maybe I'd even like to switch between different types of users (oh, ideally even different users in different workspaces at the same time). I imagine that the reason why no one responds to this suggestion is that the discussion is very focused: The friends of the complete Debian menu on the one hand, and the advocates of a "newbie friendly" desktop environment - and those newbies (I think) are generally believed to use their computer for "home office" work, from writing a letter and web browsing to listening to music and managing their photos. But in fact, I think a user can both be a newbie to Linux (and even to serious computer usage) and still have a quite focused interest, be it "administration of a non-profit organization", a particular field of science, game development, ... Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)