Applications install should be idiot proof

Nelson Chan khcha.n.el at gmail.com
Sun Jul 26 07:05:13 UTC 2009


i've just read
http://blogs.computerworld.com/ubuntu_to_make_linux_application_installation_idiot_proof
he got a pretty good idea, see the 2nd last paragraph:
"""
I may know that Amarok <http://amarok.kde.org/>,
Banshee<http://banshee-project.org/>,
Rhythmbox <http://projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox>, and
Songbird<http://getsongbird.com/>are all noteworthy Linux music
players, but come on! Does anyone beside
another Linux expert know that? Letting users choose a program by say
clicking on "music player" and then picking one makes all the sense in the
world.
"""
The idea is that newbies are likely have no idea what amarok,rhythmbox are,
so does other applications  Totem, abiword, Brasero..etc.  what they know
are the general type of the software --- Music player, movie player, office
suite, CD/DVD burner...
Also i tried to search for "music player" in Add/Remove Software,
interestingly, it gives extremely odd and pointless result..(try that
yourself)
So i can see why newbies are pull their hair off and *CAN"T GET THINGS
DONE*, and claim *fedora sucks*
See this fact, i think that we should classify some applications under their
type.
For instance,  have   Rhythmbox, amarok ..etc  under "Music Player"

The above is just a suggestion, hoping to help brain storming more better
approaches.
But i think that the idea is kinda a must for Windows and Mac OS X users to
get comfort with Linux/fedora.

Cheers.

-- 
- Nelson Chan
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