Re: Help!

From: Adam Hardy (adam.ant_at_cyberspaceroad.com)
Date: 09/07/05

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    Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 20:33:24 +0100
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    Olle Eriksson on 07/09/05 19:59, wrote:
    >>>And it allows programmers
    >>>the luxury of being lazy in their UI design. We should
    >>>assume that people won't read the docs, and build our
    >>>products with that assumption in mind.
    >>
    >>Fine in theory. In practice, any product that is easy enough to use
    >>without reading documentation is not likely to provide an optimally
    >>efficient way to accomplish the task at hand. You can't please all of
    >>the people all of the time.
    >
    >
    > That depends on the nature of the task. In most cases I believe you can
    > have a default behaviour which satisfies most newbies but still provide a
    > lot of options and control for the experienced users. Unless we want to
    > make Linux/GNU software so difficult to use that newbies or people who
    > are not willing to read through pages of documentation are "filtered"
    > out.
    >
    > I'm not too familiar with the new installer, but couldn't there be a
    > question about whether or not a GUI should be installed and have the GUI
    > as the default option. People who know what they are doing can select the
    > non-GUI option and the rest will probably be happy with getting a GUI.

    Now I'm not a Debian developer and I don't know what their mind-set is
    regarding the direction they take (and the amount of work it involves)
    but I would have thought a great option would be to have an install
    program that asks the installer to choose between a simple and an
    advanced installation procedure.

    I mean the simple procedure would provide an 'out-of-the-box' solution
    for installing a system that boots up into the desktop with a set of
    standard defaults. 

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