[Doc] My remarks during installation.

[Peter Hofer]

> "Piotr \"Derbeth\" Kubowicz" <derbeth at wp.pl> wrote:
> > Dnia Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:37:24 +0100, Marcin Jessa napisał(a):
> > > My remarks during installation:
> > >
> > > 1. The "Next", "Back" and "Cancel" buttons are not translated.
> >
> > Agree.

Confirmed. http://svn.desktopbsd.net/trac/ticket/8

> > > 3. The background image should be also different for each of the chosen
> > > languages. Now it says "DesktopBSD  Installation".
> >
> > Also "Starting system..." is only in English.

I consider this a rather small issue since almost every user has downloaded 
the release from the English website and therefore has basic English 
knowledge :) Solving this (creating a background image for each language) 
would require more efforts than it's worth.

> > > 4. Installing support for other languages shows some of their names
> > > with small letters and some in capitol letters. 5. Polish should only
> > > be listed as "Polski" and not "Jezyk Polski". 6. Creating "system
> > > password" the menu says "root's password" which should be translated
> > > too.
> > >
> > > - The package manager is not translated or it does not honour language
> > >  settings.
> > > - The same with the network and storage icons in kicker.
> >
> > These are all my fault, not anyone from the core team. I sent updated
> > translation to Daniel Seuffert.
>
> How can this be your fault for norwegian (my) translation?

We found out the problem with the Norwegian translation is related to the LANG 
and LC_ALL environment variables: http://svn.desktopbsd.net/trac/ticket/6

> > > - There should be only one virtual desktop. 4 of them are just
> > > confusing for "normal people".
> >
> > I don't think we should remove one of features that make KDE better from
> > Windows. Maybe not 4 but just 2 are sufficent, but I won't remove them.
>
> This is not removing any features.
> This is not to confuse users who do not understand the concept of virtual
> desktops who may have used Windows only before. As a good starting point
> allways imagine your mother using your tool and you will know what to do. I
> can promice you mine would be pretty confused if I told her to put her
> browser on one and email client on another.

I for one think that virtual desktops should be enabled by default, but I 
agree that two are sufficient.

> > > - The documentation icons on the desktop are of no use for anyone but
> > > advanced users. And they don't need those icons in the first place.
> >
> > I have the same opinion.

I don't consider them very helpful, but at least you know where to search for 
documentation. Removing these icons would require altering documentation 
files in all languages since these icons are described there. If someone 
wants to do that, I'll remove them :) By the way, integration of these 
folders into the KDE help center would probably be good.

Peter