On Tuesday 07 June 2005 08:56, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 07 June 2005 03:21, Joey Hess wrote: > > Planned, and ground already laid in tasksel (and indeed, it does do it > > for some easy things like language tasks). One thing I really want to > > see happen is a laptop task. The big missing peice is some simple > > program tasksel can call out to, like > > > > if this_is_a_laptop; then > > .. > > fi > > > > This should use whatever hardware probing works best for laptops. Another item that might be worth considering for laptops is a networking equivalent of the pmount group. People in these groups would be allowed to edit the network files (in particular /etc/network/interfaces) and bring interfaces up and down. Obviously on servers and corporate desktops this group would be empty or contain only system admins, but on a laptop you have to be able to fit into the network you are presented with and you do not want joe-user to be switching to root all the time just in order to do these functions.
I realise that this would require fixes to a number of packages, and quite possibly some additional code to give a graphical interface to the /etc/networking/interfaces file would be a good idea for GUI only users and those who might not understand the consequences of incorrectly coded entries and need a program to do it for them. David > > This sounds like a good idea, but will need very careful logic. > For instance, some older (APM-based) Toshiba laptops work well with the > toshiba module and the toshset package where newer (ACPI-based) laptops > need the toshiba-acpi module which does not work with toshset. > I would suspect that similar distinctions exist for other makes. > > > I'm interested in other ideas for automatic selection of default tasks. > > One thing I feel is currently missing is to show users which tasks have > been automatically selected and the option to deselect them (maybe only > at medium or lower priority). > > Which brings me to another pet wish: make it a lot easier to install at > medium priority than currently. > IMO there is a real use for medium priority: > - experienced users now often choose expert and get confused by some of > the informational dialogs (especially the "unavailable drivers" one) > - for users installing for the first time the "no dhcp" boot option and > such are not really obvious, medium priority can be used to offer > useful freedom in a structured way keeping expert for difficult hardware -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
