Fedora 7 Test 4 GNOME based i386 Live CD report

[Rahul Sundaram]

Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 06:39 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Matthias Clasen wrote:
>>>> The prime spin still has Firefox, Evolution and three openoffice.org 
>>>> applications which makes sense for RHEL but not for Fedora. I would 
>>>> prefer something more home user oriented for Fedora.
>>> Why on earth do you think firefox, evolution and OOo don't make sense
>>> for Fedora users ? The only reason OOo is not on the livecd is space.
>> I didn't say it does not make sense. Only that there are other 
>> applications more frequently compared to OO.o presentation or 
>> spreadsheet programs. You can look at mugshot stats at 
>> http://mugshot.org/applications for some idea.
>>
>> Firefox, Evolution, Openoffice.org writer, Gaim and Gnome terminal or 
>> Rhythmbox would be more appropriate IMO.
> 
> Um, I may be missing something, Rahul, but your quote above says
> *verbatim* that those applications "make sense for RHEL but not for
> Fedora."  

That was in reference to the current selection of default applications 
in the GNOME panel.

And remember that the application usage you reference comes
> from Mugshot, and not from the general base of all Fedora users, so it's
> statistically very questionable as a basis for making decisions about
> which applications to {in,ex}clude. 

It is a metric which gives you an idea unless you have something better.

  Besides, isn't the Live CD spin the
> answer to this issue?

How?

> I'm further confused that you go on to contradict your earlier statement
> about including Firefox and Evolution.  

Some applications make sense for both Fedora and RHEL so that's not a 
contradiction.

As far as OO.o goes, once you've
> got oo.o-core in a spin, it makes absolutely no sense to leave out
> -calc, -draw, and -impress. 

Who said anything about leaving out? I am talking about *icons on the 
GNOME panel*.

> If it weren't for the inevitable outcry from the more paranoid
> user/developer contingent, I'd say it might be useful to break out the
> application reporting component of Mugshot, anonymize it, and give users
> the ability to turn only that bit on:

Already suggested in fedora-desktop list. Mugshot team does not seem to 
be interested in doing that. We need a different application for this.

Rahul