[Mageia-dev] xguest and the display manager

Mon Feb 20 16:39:28 CET 2012

2012/2/20 Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com>:
+> Le 20/02/2012 15:45, Olav Vitters a écrit :
+>
+>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:59:02AM +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
+>>>
+>>> No. Configuring a user computer should be left to end-user, not to
+>>> packagers providing 'just click here' blackbox solutions.
+>>> Documenting how to achieve the same result manually, and outlining
+>>> consequences, would be a far better solution toward user awareness.
+>>
+>>
+>> I just want to get something done, I don't want to have to care about
+>> the details (not interested). E.g., to follow network time, I'd like a
+>> "follow network time" on/off checkbox instead of knowing to install
+>> ntpd, configuring it, ensuring it starts up when needed, follows IP
+>> address changes, etc.
+>
+> In order to follow time change, you need a dedicated program, so it makes
+> sense to install a package, and to configure it. You can it manually, with
+> any kind of fancy configuration wizard, no problem.
+>
+> In order to have a 'guest user', which usually means a passwordless user,
+> you don't need any additional software, you just need to configure your
+> computer. Hence my point than using a package to automatically performing
+> those configuration changes doesn't make sense, and than either a plain
+> documentation, or another fancy configuration wizard would work as well.
+>
+
+One of the strong points of Mandrake/Mandriva which was advertized
+everywhere was that a novice user was able to install the system
+without any "expert's" help while at the same time it was ready to be
+used by an expert with all the tinkering and customization an expert
+would love to spend his time on. Mageia 1 met this level.
+
+I would be very disappointed (to say the least) if this "two lane
+road" would be narrowed down, whether it would be towards a fast lane
+or a side road.
+
+xguest is a must have for many (example: everybody who takes his
+machine to events or to demo Mageia anywhere). Adding it after
+installation is not as easy as adding a regular user - xguest has
+special features (like only temporary saving of changes/new
+documents). So having a rpm which does that for you is one of the
+"nice to have" things which makes the distribution userfriendly.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+