Perhaps if 10 people cannot agree on "best" program
for a specific task, 8 people can agree on easiest to
start with for a total beginner?
I love kedit, for example, because it is really really
simple. I can write a letter in it, write html, hell
I've even written BASIC in it! Yet it functions
almost exactly like notepad. No frills but it works
and I understood how to use it the first time I
clicked on its icon in the task bar.
So, if you are trying to tweak at least one of the
installation choices to total bewbies perhaps it would
be fruitful to choose the programs from that
perspective. What is simple and intuitive, perhaps
lacking a bit in frills and sophistication, but useful
and welcoming to someone who is looking at a KDE
desktop for the first (or 20th or 50th) time ever.
If you want I will give you a (reasonably)
comprehensive list of the programs that were
absolutely essential to me during my migration to
mandrake. I would be happy to do that.
Dacia
--- Denis HAVLIK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am begining to see the pattern .-)
>
> However, these are two different things (for me).
>
> It is one thing having one or more "editors",
> "e-mail progs" "games" ...,
> and completely another thing ending up with two
> servers who try to do the
> same job.
>
> First thing is nice for most of the people (I
> hope... I like it!), while
> the second represents Absolute Evil(tm)
>
> I am not sure how difficult would it be to make a
> "minimalistic-expert-install", where you would be
> prompted to choose one
> of several similar programs during install. Looks
> like a lot of hacking to
> me. OK, noted for later discussion.
>
> I can easily imagine some kind of "minimal
> authomatised install", where
> you end up with only one-of-a-kind (one editor, one
> e-mail client...),
> whichever we think is "the best". Would this be
> interesting for anyone?
> (Obvious problem is that MY favorite editor happens
> to be...
> whatever. Pick up 10 people, and you get at least 12
> different "best
> editors")
>
> :~> Postfix and Sendmail seems to be the same
> situation. I prefer to learn
> :~> Sendmail. Therefore, I think when under the
> "Expert" mode of the
> :~> installation, the user should be prompted "Email
> server: (S)endmail? or
> :~> (P)ostfix?"
> :~>
> :~> Frank Durante
> :~>
> :~> > I'm new to this list but been using mandrake
> for a while now. One thing
> :~> > (well there may be two) I don't like about
> Linux mandrake is the
> :~>installing
> :~> > of multiple programs
> :~> > that do the same thing, for example I found 2
> versions of icq, 20 or 30
> :~> > games, who knows how many text
> :~> > editors, and multimedia software, I think more
> control of what's being
> :~> > installed should be given.
> :~> >
> :~> > Juvenal
> :~> >
> :~>
>
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