Livna Usability Assessment (Was: Re: cursed nvidia fedora my lack of knowledgeness)

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 10:51 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 00:28, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> > > 
> > > There's nothing unique about the use of the site. You shouldn't
> > > be at livna unless you already know that the program you want
> > > to install isn't in the core or extras repositories.  When you
> > > know about those repositories, you'll know all you need to
> > > know about livna except the config info. 
> > 
> > ...So, we shouldn't allow non-technical users the ability to do things
> > with Fedora like play Windows Media formats because they're not
> > technical enough to understand it. Nice...
> 
> No, I mean we shouldn't confuse them into thinking that livna is
> different even if they are too dumb to know better.  They should
> start by using fedora extras and then when livna works exactly
> the same way they won't have anything new to learn.  Livna is
> different only by policy, not by anything technical.
> 

OK - Uncle.

You're right about all of it.

I hearby withdraw my offer to assist with Livna. Obviously, you guys
know how all users should interact with your system and it's so simple
anyone could figure it out themselves.

I did...


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