Marin,<br><br>Its a good idea. But i agree to your idea to some extent.<br><br>Guess copyright problems come up if you use the captions, which other OS uses.<br><br>The following is my thought ( anybody can contradict if its wrong ).
<br><br>1) We can have a similar screen of login like windows ( take Xp as example ). But the captions should be winky/eye-catching.<br>2) Make the applications more user friendly and configurable ( i would say that current fedora settings are 60-65% only user friendly ).
<br><br>3) Develop up codecs/libs that are available to make the appearance/applications more user-friendly.<br><br>4) Desktop short-cuts has to be improved.<br><br>The above are my thoughts. These are just ideas. Anybody can suggest/improve/contradict my thoughts :)
<br><br>Coming to the utility, yes, it will be good, if we come up with some application which can be used to set the 1),2),3),4) and set it as boot-up.<br><br><br>Regards,<br>Roopesh.<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 8/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Martin Sourada</b> <<a href="mailto:martin.sourada@seznam.cz">martin.sourada@seznam.cz</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br><br>It's all about picking default settings new users wish. Imagine a user<br>who is coming from Windows to Fedora, but he has no clue how linux<br>works. It would greatly help him if the linux behaved to some extent
<br>similar to Windows - meaning applications look (themes), window's<br>buttons layout (in this case same), menu layout, keyboard shortcuts etc.<br>The same for users coming from Mac OS and for users used to Gnome and
<br>switching to KDE and opposite way. The idea is that user selects what he<br>wants his desktop resemble, and then the usage of the desktop would be<br>more intuitive to him.<br><br>What would we need for that?<br> 1. Check out, how much we can set up GNOME/KDE to look and behave
<br> like other DEs/OSes<br> 2. If some of the stuff which makes this easier is available, but<br> not in fedora, get it into repository<br> 3. Write a utility that can change the DE's settings to what we
<br> have found in 1.<br> 4. Integrate the utility into anaconda or first boot.<br><br>The utility should be pretty straightforward - you will have a bunch of<br>radio buttons captioned Windows 9x, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X
<br>(dunno version differences though, might need more radio buttons for<br>that one), GNOME, KDE (for how it should look like) and a two check<br>boxes with simple description of GNOME and KDE (in the description<br>should be noted primarily differences between those to, to ease
<br>selection to one who has no idea what GNOME/KDE is; for what will be<br>used as 'backend').<br><br>Just a though... Your opinions? Is it even desirable? Does it make<br>sense?<br><br>Martin<br><br>--<br>fedora-devel-list mailing list
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