On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 08:05 -0400, Jack Doerner wrote: > A few comments: > > We need to be careful as well not to over stereotype the userbase (or > userbase to be) > > For "Keeping hands tied", I understand (I think, I could be wrong) > exactly what this means, and it's more a problem with advancing > packages than distros (though certainly it is a distro problem too). > Power-user friendly (odd phrase, that one) tends to be more file-in, > file-out, 100% human readable config, where everything has > standardized places and functions making it easy to dig into the guts > of the system. Yes, like gentoo.... Then things like gconf come along > and make it much harder for that type of person, without making it any > easier for anyone else (can you tell I dislike gconf?). Limiting > options is also a big issue, but this one seems to get overlooked. > > On a separate note, for the new users, it would be very helpful to > have an admin app that allows you to edit config files or values in > config files that do not have graphical front-ends (and even some of > those that do). Make sure that people are warned though! > >
Configuration in general is going the way of the dodo bird. Ideally we want to be configuration free, completely dynamic. I understand we aren't there yet, and we need to provide utilities for those things that aren't smart enough yet. Xorg is getting closer with every release, but I fear it will be a while. Most other core stuff can work fine without any configuration, there are still some outside cases that require tweaking. We need to optimize for the desired future, not for how things were in the 1990s. --Ken _______________________________________________ Foresight-devel mailing list Foresight-devel@lists.rpath.org http://lists.rpath.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-devel
