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

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Wed Nov 16 11:49:45 UTC 2005


Am Dienstag, den 15.11.2005, 07:33 -0700 schrieb 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.

Just one question Christopher: Who do you mean with "you guys"? Les
Mikesell is not involved with livna afaik (or did I miss anything
here?). 

CU
thl




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