Hi Chris, On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 14:58, chapmanccc@xxxxxxxx wrote: > To the developers, > > The Linux operating system is maturing and we all hope that it will be > a major contender in the home and business markets. As it approaches > this goal, the customer base changes. Linux is no longer the "geek > OS" it once was. Where once the predominant profile of a Linux user > was a young male, you now find fathers and husbands (I am both), women > (I am married to one) and children (I have three). Linux is my main > OS at home and my wife and oldest child also use it. > > With this evolution, a level of professionalism must also take place. > Being that the Fedora project is one of the leading consumer Linux > distributions, I would hope the developers would want to 'lead the > pack' in this area. > > This brings me to my point. I was rather disappointed with the > content in the "WebCollage" and "Barcode" screensavers. These > screensavers have since been manually removed from my system, but I > would have preferred them not to be installed by default. When I > install Mac OS or Windows, garbage like this is not included. Why? > Because the developers strive to build a professional product. Yes, I > can install items like this with Mac OS or Windows, but I would need > to download or purchase them after installing the OS. I think Ray has recently done work to put some of the screensavers into a package which isn't installed by default. I agree that it might be worthwhile to put some of the more geeky screensavers into that package. Its always going to be a tough call to decide which ones should be installed by default and which ones shouldn't, but logging a bug bugzilla.redhat.com/xscreensaver with your suggestions for which ones shouldn't be installed by default (with a rationale for each suggestion). > Developers, please be considerate when creating the Fedora > distributions and let's strive to make Linux as professional as > possible. Thanks for the advice. I'll start acting more professional tomorrow. Cheers, Mark. -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
