Brief diary of an F-7 installation

[Tim]

Jim Cornette:
>> the preference screen should have more selections vs. scrambling through
>> gconf-editor which needs to be installed so you can change bad (IMO)
>> program system behavior options.

It's too much like the diabolical Windows registry, and regedit.  I
can't make that hideous comparison strong enough.

Les Mikesell:
> Now from one release to the next I just see arbitrary renaming of
> devices and even the distribution itself, and shuffling things around
> in experimental ways.  What happened to designing a good user
> experience?

The sort of thing that's typical of design by committee (didn't like the
last attempt, let's change things around, let's not actually pay
attention to the critique and advice about what would have been
improvements).

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(This box runs Centos 5.0, my others still run FC 4, 5, 6, & 7, in case that's
 important to the thread.)

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