On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 18:46 +0000, Ethan Lofton wrote: > In this end, this ends up making things less user-friendly and usable. > Desktop users who also do some graphical system work are suddenly cut > off. Gnome no longer has a strong foundation for catering to multiple > audiences who want a modern and complete desktop environment.
I agree. There becomes a point where you're just making the user experience worse for those users that *do* have some clue about things (for example, my father, who came across this problem when installing Edgy in place of an old Mandrake system). If stuff is dumbed down too much (for example, to the point that users-admin has been), then I'd be afraid we're in danger of losing these middle-ground users (like my father) who are, at present, *probably* the majority of Ubuntu's users, and -- more importantly -- they are necessary to achieve a stable set of Average Joe users (e.g., my mother would not be using Linux if my father weren't there to install and maintain it). Sorry for the rant. -- [users-admin] show all users checkbox is gone and there is no way to view users with a UID of less than 1000 https://launchpad.net/bugs/70850 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
