How friendly are the configuration tools to end users?

[Martin Jürgens]

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?


Martin
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