Re: My reason to upgrade 10.0 to 10.1

Et circa horam Sunday 21 May 2006 16:02, clamavit houghi:

Jacek K B?aszkowski wrote:
Shame-on-YAST:
-- the what-the-fsck-get-it-out-of-my-sight Network Manager. I don't
know,
<snip>

turned off by default. It uses the old way normally.
Fortunately! Anyway, it's a shame to put something like this in a "stable"
version of an OS.

- I want my YAST fulscreen, just as I had it in 10.0. It hasn't got any
configuration options, so I click it to fulscreen. And the next time I
run it it's again a small windowlet, hidden cowardly somewhere in the
corner. It's a detail, but we're used to SUSE being nice in even minor
details.

I like it NOT being fullscreen. I have a 1600x1200 screen and having it
fullscreen makes it more difficult to see information I have on an other
program.
Precisely what I'm talking about - if it's configurable or at least
remembers last settings, it will never leave 1/2 users disappointed.

- I made a clean install, formatting / and leaving /home, but the
installer suggested formatting everything it could lay its paws on. A
minor glitch,

Not a minor glitch. It is a sugestion.
Sorry for not making myself clear. It's not a suggestion, the formatting
option is *preselected*.

but if someone is very hasty and doesn't pay attention to the messages
(OK, it was in red, but IMO such messages should be in bold, all-singing,
all-dancing, requiring 20 confirmations - this is my data, after all),
then it can be painful.

Oh. This is another "blame SUSE for my own mistakes".
Exactly. Plenty people complain i.e. about Windows applying insecure
settings *by default* and they're right; now why does SUSE pick one of the
worst Windows things here? I think all the default settings should be safe
with an option to change them to dangerous ones - but not the other way.
And... AFAIR even Windows installer doesn't try to format anything by
default and this is the right thing to do.

Regards, jkb
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