On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 16:37 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Why? If they don't care, they can just click "Next" on the pre-checked GNOME > radiobutton (and I guess that if they really don't know what to pick or > don't want to make a choice, they probably fit straight into GNOME's target > userbase, so I don't object to making GNOME the preselected button). I > really don't see how a "select your desktop environment" screen in the DVD > would be a problem. I already explained that, we're circling *again*. The problem is that when you ask someone to make a choice without understanding the options, it tends to frustrate them. This is a well-observed phenomenon in all circles, certainly including computer user interface design. (This happened to me just yesterday, filling in a Red Hat expense report. The process includes several pages of choices, few of which I really understood. It turned out sticking with most of the defaults was fine, but I was nevertheless frustrated and unsure what I should do, and when something *did* go wrong - which turned out to just be a server error - I was worried it was because I had done the 'wrong thing' earlier in the process.) And again as I said before, whether we consider this a problem or not depends on whether we care much about people who wouldn't know the options they were being asked to choose between. And that's not a question we currently have a clear answer to, I don't think. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
