Re: Which task package installs gpm?
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 12:44:40AM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
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> For that configuration, they should be left with an "Everything Just
> Works" X Login; they should log in to HelixCode GNOME (and/or KDE C++
> only land), and have a few toys to goof with. Mozilla or Nautilus
> should be featured, and it ought to have plenty for them to read,
> starting with an overview of what there is to read and why they
> should read it. Tell them right away what is expected of them to
> become proficient, and how long that will take at what rate of
> reading. Teach them right off the bat how to find out how to do
> something. Perhaps offer to subscribe them to a mailing list? Who
> will monitor that list? That's quite a job; and perhaps a boring
> one.
>
> The menus should all work. The WM ought to be well configured. It
> should look nice and be immediately useful. I want to click an icon
> and have XEmacs fired up, complete with `gnuserv', and if I click
> that icon again, I want it to reuse the same XEmacs process. When it
> starts the first time, it ought to create the ~/.xemacs/ directory,
> and offer to become `viper' if they know what that is; recommending
> that they not use that mode if they are not already `vi' users. When
> I click a "mailto" URL in Mozilla-lite, I want it to open an XEmacs
> `message-mode' buffer in a new frame.
>
> Of course, other editors should be offered as well... with their
> "full features" ;-) ready to use. Debian is still very much a kit
> right now. It's sure not the one-button wonder.
When you finish it, let us know. (I'm hoping you do)
> It would be good to check and see how powerful and loaded the machine
> is, and not start too much going at once if it's not that powerful.
> But if it can deal with it, we ought to, by default, start up
> `gkrellm', `xmms', and run a `gmix' to set some reasonable mixer
> defaults alsa. There ought to be an *.ogg in the XMMS when it's
> first time launched with a message from us. (Perhaps singing "(Join
> us now and) Free the Software" as a chorus? I believe we have a few
> musicians amoung our ranks.)
Though this part seems a bit weird. If I want this stuff to run,
then I want it to run! I don't want the computer telling me it's
not good enough to run. That's why I quit using Windows, the damn
computer allways thinks it's smarter than me, and I have to pull
teeth to make it do what I want it to do. (that, and other things
too numerous to mention)
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