Re: adding desktop files to misc packages
Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> wrote:
> I really wonder whether this concept of user roles are really that strange
> or stupid that all posters seem to ignore this idea. (Feel free to teach
> me in private to keep silent with those stupid ideas.)
Personally, I think it's probably a very good idea. Maybe I'd even like
to switch between different types of users (oh, ideally even different
users in different workspaces at the same time).
I imagine that the reason why no one responds to this suggestion is that
the discussion is very focused: The friends of the complete Debian menu
on the one hand, and the advocates of a "newbie friendly" desktop
environment - and those newbies (I think) are generally believed to use
their computer for "home office" work, from writing a letter and web
browsing to listening to music and managing their photos.
But in fact, I think a user can both be a newbie to Linux (and even to
serious computer usage) and still have a quite focused interest, be it
"administration of a non-profit organization", a particular field of
science, game development, ...
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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