Fedora 7 Test 4 GNOME based i386 Live CD report

[Rahul Sundaram]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 14:52 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> But it is not clear at all how to interpret the data. The mere fact that
> the terminal shows up high on the list does not tell you that  you must
> make the terminal easier available. 

No but it shows up some trends. It maybe showing that the desktop is not 
very usable currently without the terminal. If you want to collect 
better stats then we need to provide a way similar to smolt that gives 
us a optional way to keep track of which packages are being installed or 
used more without tying it with mugshot. Would you be interested in that?

Maybe people hate that they are
> forced to use the terminal so much, and we should work on reducing the
> need to do so...

Yes, that would be the better long term answer for the desktop users.

>> Who said anything about leaving out? I am talking about *icons on the 
>> GNOME panel*.
> 
> Ah, that wasn't clear to me at all. In that case, I tend to agree a bit 
> more. But the answer may be more radical, like doing away with the top
> panel, and replace it with bigboard.

Might be but we for Fedora 7 release would you consider making these 
application icons show up on the panel by default?

Firefox, Evolution, Tomboy, Openoffice.org writer(skip the rest of the 
openoffice.org apps) and Gaim.

For the GNOME live images replace Openoffice.org writer with Abiword.

Rahul