Hi Yesterday I sent the following proposal to the [EMAIL PROTECTED], 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 >From - Wed Nov 1 01:15:00 2000 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 01:14:54 +0100 From: guran remberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-idepci i686) X-Accept-Language: en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Proposal - simple textual wrapper for packages Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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
