Re: Objections [Was: GNOME System Monitor will use libgnomesu]

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:38:14 +0100, Hongli Lai <h lai chello nl> wrote:
> Elijah Newren wrote:
> > To me, your argument roughly translates as "Distro A has different
> > customizations than Distro B.  Gnome programs should give warning
> > dialogs that confuse most users because it allows sysadmin-types to
> > have a slightly easier time undoing those customizations".  While
> > assisting sysadmins is a good goal, I think that this isn't the
> > appropriate way to do so.  I feel that the help documentation or
> > release notes would be much better.
> 
> That's of course assuming the user is running a corporate desktop
> machine instead of a home desktop machine.

Actually, I was thinking of a home desktop machine when responding.