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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