gb spam wrote: > On 3/7/06, Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> gb spam wrote: >> >>> Perhaps you should check the list - it was "debated" at length there >>> with all pro-choice arguments dismissed, sometimes with valid points, >>> but often without valid points. >> I do subscribe to it... what was the thread called? A quick search on >> 'everything' in the last 30 days in Thunderbird showed lots of posts but >> not the magic thread as I could recognize it. > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-January/msg01136.html > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-February/msg01632.html > > Its cropped up in other threads too. I read the whole of the threads. Appears a lot of the frustration is coming into existence solely because the replacement UI does not seem to allow one to feel that one has selected (as in ticking the visible checkboxes) everything easily. Maybe aside from the other listed problems people feel cheated or that they are missing out when they become exhausted trying to tick boxes by hand. If so then small improvements to the UI might let people feel they were rapidly able to emulate the old behaviour they wanted (despite that checking all the boxes leaves 800 packages uninstalled according to one poster). At the least in the case where a guy really did want most packages it shouldn't take him "an hour" as one guy reported each install to peck out his desires. Put that way it starts to sound like a "Gnome Usability Mindset" -type problem I really hope that isn't it and it is just not finished yet. Anyway the arguments against people routinely installing everything still stand to me. I really hope though that things do head towards a really core Core, even a precooked tarball that is splatted onto the HDD would suit me for that, a 20-second Core install followed system-config-packages. > remark - it almost made me use that ugly abbreviation - LOL. No > wait, damn, it did. It's no use, learn to love the neololism. -Andy
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