Proposal - simple textual wrapper for packages
Hi
Yesterday I sent the following proposal to the secretary@debian.org, the
copy you are seeing has been spelling checked, mine was not. I am
sending this from Mandrake as I have got a bug or something in Kicker in
my Potato.
Is it hot enough to get you coughing?
regards
guran
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From: guran remberg <guran@nr1.nu>
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Hello secretary,
I want the simple mode of selecting packages, at the installation, to be
stationary, and to be the starting point for a newbie, when he chooses
to change his initial selection.
Discussion:
Certain repeated questions in the user area can be managed through a
'simple wrapper (=sapper)' with increased choices for the newbie.
If one makes one part of the 'sapper' to X11, then an introduction to
that could be: "How do you want to start your X-server, &c xdm gdm ?
This means that if the user later wants to change his choice, and don't
know how to, this place ought to be the right place to return to and
look for an answer. I personally try to do my admin duties without a
X-server running.
Certain programs that are today put into the 'base' area, ought to be
made a choice for the newbie. Emacs is an excellent example, by history
it is known as a 'pseudo-OS' by itself - but I refuse to learn it. I use
mc when I am fiddling around in the console mode with mcedit as the
editor, where the pull down menu's helps me.
Certain aspects of the 'modern use' of the internet and the computer
ought to be added to this 'sapper' area like browser, irc, chat.
Personally I could have reached for a shotgun, if I had had that one
responsible for the division of Netscape in so many small packages. I
still have not fixed that spelling checker, but now I know how to. Zero
killed - but for a newbie it is an almost overwhelming experience to
look at page after page of packages in fucking 1970:th REVERSE VIDEO.
SuSe has one implementation in yast where it is more easy to read how
packages is working from a newbie perspective.
Personally I would through out all old terminals with their historic
colours, I can't get the fine background all white only dirty gray or
yellow. And mind you I started with fine headache on a tty back in the
late sixties.
regards
guran
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