How friendly are the configuration tools to end users?

[Rui Tiago Cação Matos]

On Sex, 2007-08-10 at 14:59 +0200, Martin Jürgens wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Linux and especially Fedora is more and more used as a desktop operating
> system for end users.
> 
> This creates new conditions how Fedora should look like. On the one hand, there are
> administrators, which want to have powerful GUI configuration applications.
> 
> On the other hand, there is a new aspect, the end user. He probably does not know what IPv6 and other things are and just wants to configure a printer or 
> network or the yum frontend. All in one, system administrators have other exceptations than end users.
> 
> I am of the opinion that we somehow have to make both groups happy or make end users more happy without bothering system administrators.
> 
> One way is to create seperate configuration tools for both groups, but I do not like that (SuSE does it slightly like that: YaST for administrators,
> the GNOME configuration tools for end users). An other, easy possibility would be to hide advanced configuration options behind a button "advanced".
> 
> I know that this is not very specified yet, but maybe we can discuss about the problem and possible solutions.
> 
> 
> What do you think?

See this page and especially Murray Cumming's remarks at the end of it:

http://live.gnome.org/ScratchPad/Configuration

Cheers,
Rui

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