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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: The art of not offering customization
From:       Kristian Koehntopp <kk () netuse ! de>
Date:       2002-05-30 14:15:49
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On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 08:28:30AM -0600, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> see, we can hide all those messages so a few new users feel
> better about how their computer starts up. but then not only
> do those who actually use them lose out, those who would like
> to learn lose out and when something goes WRONG, well, your
> tech support can't ask you to read what is on your screen.

See, I am not against error messages during boot, should
something go wrong. I wouldn't have anything against a nicely
formatted summary of devive drivers as SCO Xenix/386 did it in
their day, too - I found that to be very useful, and it fitted
nicely onto a single screen. Or against a nicely formatted and
colored summary of functioning subsystems, for that matter.

What the Linux kernel - offtopic and this list cannot do a thing
about it, I know - produces during boot, and what Suse or other
Linuxes produce after init comes up, is either useless, because
it scrolls away, and sometimes downright scary for the
uninitiated user. Heck, even the initialization messages of
different network cards do not follow a common formatting
scheme, and for no apparent reason.

Kristian

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