Fedora 7 Test 4 GNOME based i386 Live CD report

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 19:10 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 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?

Or it may be showing that the small percentage of users running Mugshot,
who probably skew *way* toward the developers and technical folks
involved in Fedora, use the terminal a lot out of habit.  And yes, the
smolt-ish app tracker is exactly what I proposed.

> > 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.

I also thought it was unclear, but I agree that the panel choices are a
bit dated.  A bigboard that intelligently puts users more in touch with
what they want to do is a great idea.

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