Re: [Cooker] [Mandrake 10] Ideas for RpmDrake [long] - install from menu

2003-10-08 Thread Eric Fernandez 
Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:

Hi!

I think this is an interesting thread. A few ideas:

1. make install of progrms directly available from the menu.
With a right click one can administer menu items.
ine thing is to under eg word processing, you can add a menu item like
koffice, if it is not there, and adding the menu item will also install
the "program". This would be easily understandable for a newbie.
It is directly related to the main tool that the newbie (and others)
use, namely the menu.
Administer menu items could also let the menu item go away - and that
would then uninstall the packages too.
I like this idea of an "installer menu". But to avoid confusion, do not 
add it to the standard menu (its size would be too important). In 
addition to rpmdrake, make it a new menu in the bar, with packages 
sorted using "Mandrake choice" or other (the sort order could be 
configured with a right click). It could then open rpmdrake to install 
them for example. This would be a good way to show rpmdrake to the newbies.

Eric

Re: [Cooker] [Mandrake 10] Ideas for RpmDrake [long] - install from menu

2003-10-08 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen 
Hi!

I think this is an interesting thread. A few ideas:

1. make install of progrms directly available from the menu.
With a right click one can administer menu items.
ine thing is to under eg word processing, you can add a menu item like
koffice, if it is not there, and adding the menu item will also install
the "program". This would be easily understandable for a newbie.
It is directly related to the main tool that the newbie (and others)
use, namely the menu.

Administer menu items could also let the menu item go away - and that
would then uninstall the packages too.


2. if we install big chunks of software, then the distributions should
be availiable in big chunks, eg in some kind of .img format, which is a
collection of packages. This could speed up installation tremendiously.
Often it takes say 45 minutes to install the main selection of packages.
This should be doable in 2 mins, if we just install a standard .iso
like image (maybe an ext3 fs in some quickly uncompressable format)
and then readjust the size of the file system afterwards.

This could be good for system preinstallation for Linux mackine vendors
over a 100 Mbit network, and for others with such capability, whic is
commonplace LAN technology. With a 100 Mbit LAN you can install a 1 GB
system in less than 2 mins (120 secs).

Best regards
keld