On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 15:26:38 +0000, Stuart Children <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >>I'd say no regardless. It's too dificult to choose > >>appropriate colours. > > > > I dont think so. with some amount of careful thought > > it should be possible > > There have been several good reasons given already why colours in > particular are bad. I'll give one more: are you sure that a given colour > implies what you think it does in different cultures? > > > If fedora was catering just to old time unix users who > > are used to working with Linux on the server, then > > this definitely is not needed but since its trying to > > be appealing to everyone including newbies, it is > > important that we do something like this. > > If you really want to make the "danger" of a root shell more obvious to > newbies, then how about: Create a new application launcher "root > terminal" which prompts for the root password, gives you a nice stern > warning dialogue, and could have different window decoration to a > regular terminal. This way root's shell is left alone for people who > know how to get there other ways, and all the "warnings" are easily > localisable and themable - as well as contained within the one launcher > that the rest of us don't have to use. > > I'm all for getting as many people as possible to use Fedora. However, > that does not mean we should be pandering to newbies; or doing things > that will inconvenience the more experienced users. The command line is > supposed to be powerful - but with great power comes great > responsibility (apologies, couldn't resist). Until newbies gain enough > experience for that, they should be given more friendly and safer > methods to configure their system. So if you feel the > "newbie-friendlyness" of Fedora needs work then I'd suggest time and > effort would best be spent helping create/improve the GUI admin tools. > Those are also beneficial to advanced users. > This is the best idea yet, drop the whole idea of altering the prompt and stick any warnings inside kde, gnome, and xfce. I can't say I would want my fedora installations to warn me about using root though. > Cheers > > -- > Stuart > > > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- Nick Bargnesi http://www.den-4.com Den 4 Software pub 1024D/E8BD2FD0 2004-12-02 Nick Bargnesi <nbargnesi@xxxxxxxxx> Key fingerprint = 6F9D 9404 63CD 2B04 DE7A 0F9D A1ED C1B0 E8BD 2FD0 sub 2048g/56C5D45B 2004-12-02
