On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 16:48 +0100, Naheem Zaffar wrote: > >> Forcing a choice at install time to uninformed users is plain bad >> usability. Allowing those that are informed to change the defaults is >> the right way. > > Naheem nailed this one. The problem with forcing a choice is that, for a > certain group of people, the choice is nonsense: Do we have any reason to believe that this is a significant percentage of the Fedora demographic? Or does it not matter if they only make up 1%? If so, are we targeting and possible type of Fedora user? I personally think there would be less work to be done if Fedora stopped partially targeting a class of newbie users who can't be trusted to decide their own DE, but are willing to follow Fedora's aggressive update/upgrade paths. I have seen little evidence that that demographic even exists, yet everything seems to be done with their best interest as the rationale. -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
