Hi! On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Ross Gammon <ret...@the-gammons.net> wrote:
> Good discussion everyone! > > Reducing options has also come up in the Debian Multimedia team. Several > people there agreed that it would be nice to have a basic setup in each > category for new users, and then a "pro" setup. How do we make users > aware of the choice? > Thats a tough one... Thanks for bringing it up. I wonder if the answer isn't embedded in the users choice to begin with? A plain ubuntu/debian user, might find a sudden desire to create an image or a wedding video and look for tools on in the software center. A Ubuntustudio / debian-multimedia user has already made a pro-active choice to focus on creativity. This however is not necessarily a rule, but without going too deep into philosophical braincracking, i think that whatever level the user chosing a creative toolsuit is on, (over a regular computing OS) the user has an embedded ambition to master creativity tools. Regardless if this ambition is later-on fullfilled or not. This ambition, should be stimulated and guided. By this i mean that I think its important to keep things beginner-friendly while keeping our focus on helping the user to improve on its path. TL;DR rather than leveling too much against the lower level, we should pull the user up. In this particular case of video software, i think it becomes obvious on opening, that openshot is beginner friendly, and blender is not. But this is a very personal and probably biased point of view that might not be relevant within the realm of software in the other work-flows. Then if we could find a way to make it easy for users to search for and > install other more specialist packages? Debtags was considered as one > part of the picture here. > > The little i have dugged into debtag tells me they are very relevant to this task. When it comes to installing packages that aren't included in ubuntu-studio, the description is our friend here. But obviously, to display a description the user need to find it first..... Sorry for being a bit disparate, i hope i make sense.... Looking forward to read more input on this, -- Set Hallström
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