We can make fedora easier

Tareq Al Jurf taljurf at fedoraproject.org
Thu Nov 19 06:45:22 UTC 2009


Forget the keyboard thing, ur right

But about Nautilus
Read this for example
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=208330

and about the page "whyupstream"
i've read it before

Regards

2009/11/18 Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com>

> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 02:08:50PM +0300, Tareq Al Jurf wrote:
> >    Yup
> >    since the majority of new Fedora users come from windows
> >    we want to make it easy for them
>
> 1. Do you have statistics supporting this?
>
> 2. Do we really want to be like Windows, if people are switching away
> from it for something better?
>
> >    Another issue we should discuss is the Keyboard Layout Key
> >    this is a problem for bilingual Fedora users (like me)
> >    Why don't we make the default ALT+SHIFT
> >    I think it's the most popular
>
> Again, you'd need something to back this up, but I expect you could
> discuss this with the Fedora I18n engineering folks who work on
> multilingual support tools, as opposed to this list.
>
> >    for my self, when i install Fedora i add the Arabic then change the
> key
> >    right away
> >
> >    In my opinion
> >    The idea should be to make Fedora easier, more comfortable and ready
> to
> >    use for 90% of the users even if we should sometimes leave the
> upstream.
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WhyUpstream
>
> There are sometimes reasons to diverge but we don't pursue it as our
> first option.  The above page is important to understand if you're
> interested in work as a Fedora Ambassador.
>
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Tareq Al Jurf
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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