On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 12:24 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > On 8/22/07, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I'm a little bothered that you're picking and choosing which questions > > you think users can answer. I think users can intelligibly understand > > statements about gpg keys. The difference here is that I'm assuming that > > users are smarter and/or capable of using google to understand what's > > going on. > > I'm perfectly willing to concede that user are *able* to understand > these messages if they take the time. They probably have a college > degree, assemble furniture with cryptic instructions translated from > Japanese, and file their taxes every April. But what I don't concede > is that they *want to* understand these messages or *will bother* to > understand these messages. > > I see no value training up our users to understand how to import GPG > keys into RPM. Our users should be spending their brain cells > designing bridges and curing cancer. (And maybe buying shoes on Ebay > too). Our job is to make package installation not consume those brain > cells. > > This has all strayed off pretty far into theory-land. Maybe you can > give a concrete example of a concrete case (starting with why the user > is in the GUI tool to begin with) of when a user needs to be asked a > yum-specific question when interacting with a GUI tool? - import a gpg key from a repo so they can install a package. - verify that the set of things they are asking to install/remove/obsolete is what they _really_ want to do. - let them know they need to reboot/logout/restart-some-program in order to have these changes take effect. We've got to get some information to them b/c the internet isn't error-free. :) -sv -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
