that alone only helps server people (i.e. it gets you out of frustration halfway if you're a Desktop user using Gnome, KDE etc).
Why?
Well, while the M$ Windows we so much love hating handles the stuff below, I have not seen anything close enough to it in the Linux flovors I have used (RedHat, Fedora, Debian, SuSE).
Here is what I am talking about --think of yourself as a Desktop user or admin for Desktop users. Gnome and Debian.
a) What are the names (labels) of the application that was just installed. I.e., when I frantically go through the menu tree (Gnome and/or Debian) what am I looking for? Am I expected to remember
the previous setting of all those menus and do a mental diff?
b) If, say, I am installing 'Ethereal', I want it to be under 'Applications' --> 'Network' (instead of being buried somewhere else), and I'd like it to be labelled something more user-friendly
(OK, this is not really valid for Ethereal, but is for almost everything else).
c) I want to rearrange the whole thing so that I dont need to trace 2 tree (Gnome and Debian) and merge and/or prune the whole thing the way it suits me. How do I do it --other than
going thru a lot of low-level guts of the system. Even then, the whole thing is totally trial/error --no visual feedback.
d) This was the user , I am the admin. I want to let some other users use that app and some others not to use it. How do I do all of this? Do I login for each user and arrange it for them?
I can go on. But, you see the headaches, I hope.
Most of this could have been solved if the installer were to come back to me and ask 'under what label, under which menu node, for which users' am I going to install that particular app.
Doe sthis new magical thingy do that. I doubt it. Does anything else. Not that I know of.
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that alone only helps server people (i.e. it gets you out of frustration halfway if you're a Desktop user using Gnome, KDE etc).
Why?
Well, while the M$ Windows we so much love hating handles the stuff below, I have not seen anything close enough to it in the Linux flovors I have used (RedHat, Fedora, Debian, SuSE).
Here is what I am talking about --think of yourself as a Desktop user or admin for Desktop users. Gnome and Debian.
a) What are the names (labels) of the application that was just installed. I.e., when I frantically go through the menu tree (Gnome and/or Debian) what am I looking for? Am I expected to remember the previous setting of all those menus and do a mental diff?
b) If, say, I am installing 'Ethereal', I want it to be under 'Applications' --> 'Network' (instead of being buried somewhere else), and I'd like it to be labelled something more user-friendly (OK, this is not really valid for Ethereal, but is for almost everything else).
c) I want to rearrange the whole thing so that I dont need to trace 2 tree (Gnome and Debian) and merge and/or prune the whole thing the way it suits me. How do I do it --other than going thru a lot of low-level guts of the system. Even then, the whole thing is totally trial/error --no visual feedback.
d) This was the user , I am the admin. I want to let some other users use that app and some others not to use it. How do I do all of this? Do I login for each user and arrange it for them?
I can go on. But, you see the headaches, I hope.
Most of this could have been solved if the installer were to come back to me and ask 'under what label, under which menu node, for which users' am I going to install that particular app.
Doe sthis new magical thingy do that. I doubt it. Does anything else. Not that I know of.