On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:47:25 +1000 David Seikel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> Recovering from the dreaded lurgy that has kept me in bed for days and > catching up on email. Still feverish, this may ramble a bit. > > On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 23:35:32 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > what we SHOULD do is have the "first run wizard" handle all of this. > > > > the plan is to have a 1 single module ONLY loaded by default - the > > "installer" module. it's a wizard that will: > > > > 1. ask you for what general kind of setup for e you want (theme, > > wallpaper, focus policy, key bindings policies etc.) but only ask in > > broad-strokes. so it's "do you want windows or unix style focusing?" > > "which of these 4 looks do you like?" "do you want to spend cpu on > > eyecandy or not?" etc. > > I saw some talk in IRC about profiles and the defaults. I have been > thinking about this for a little while. Having several standard E > profiles that cover what the first run wizard will ask sounds good to > me - > > 1) Windows like defaults. > 2) Mac like defaults. > 3) Gnome like defaults. > 4) KDE like defaults. > 5) Configurin' fo' da raster stylin's. > > No actual coding would have to be done to edit these defaults, just > load the profile, fire up a config dialog, commit the profile back to > CVS. > > These standard E profiles would be stored in the enlightenment data > directory. There should also be allowance made for a system default > profile stored in /etc somewhere. This is for sysadmins that want to > control such defaults. > > Load up the default standard profile first, override that with the > system /etc profile, and finally override that with the users > configuration. If no user config, start first run wizard that defaults > to default standard profile + system profile. > > I'll probably make more sense tomorrow. B-) I was hoping the wizard was more fine-grained than just selecting a config profile. it should do more than that. maybe one day a config SELECTOR which can take some stored config and "import" it (later allow people to upload and download configs on-line and share them) - but the wizard should be doing things like selecting what modules you want based on your system (eg don't load battery module if you have no battery), change config settings based on performance testing and system inspection (performance config values like cache sizes, fps for animation etc.). -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
