RE: Some things GNOME really needs

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

I know the install interface in the release gnorpm-0.8 was less than
optimal (to put it mildly :), but I have been working on improving it.
IMO the interface in the CVS version is much more improved.  I would
suggest trying out the latest CVS version of gnorpm, and give me feedback
on that.

Just because the gnorpm-0.8 interface is klunky does not mean that it can
not be improved (it has been).  I don't know how useful a wizard would be
in this situation.

James.

--
Email: james@daa.com.au
WWW:   http://www.daa.com.au/~james/


On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, a wrote:

> Gnorpm is the coolest thing ive seen when it comes to installing under any
> Unix-like system, still, the normal newbie user is not acostumed to Gnome
> and, for him,  it should be very easy to install anything.
> 
> Perhaps an intermediate solution is in order, rpm has the advantage of being
> hands free so the tarball idea is somehow not-as-neat.... (come on, a front
> end that controled all the things that can go wrong in the
> configure-make-install cycle would be huge)
> 
> So maybe an interactive wizard IN gnorpm -maybe just an interface with less
> options for the newbie, just to get him started- or an interactive
> walkthrough would do the trick.
> 
> In less words:
>     gnorpm is nice and easy but it needs some more work on the interface.
> >From my point of view its one of the more important apps that Gnome can have
> 'cause its like a greeting card. The first thing a user does after
> installing his OS is start looking for some other apps to install.
>