Re: [Fwd: Re: here i come !]

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

As Bastien has pointed out, we can probably auto-detect the need for
most of this stuff. Detect an LCD? Try sub-pixel anti-aliasing. Detect a
PCMCIA slot? Install PCMCIA software. Detect a battery, install modes
for power saving. etc. Probably not super-important since its not a
technical question (pretty much every user knows the difference between
a laptop and a desktop), but its still one more question we could
potentially save asking.

Just playing devil's advocate here :-)

-Seth

On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 16:23, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 23:40, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > <quote who="Seth Nickell">
> > 
> > > This is exactly the obscure sort of technical choice we *shouldn't*
> > > present if we are really targeting home users. There are options though...
> > > For example, what about having a low battery mode that mounts the
> > > filesystem as ext2 (you can mount ext3 filesystems as ext2 as far as I
> > > understand, right?). Things like that that end up being transparent.
> > 
> > I agree. At install time, we can have a selection like (the text is poopie,
> > but you get the idea):
> > 
> > [x] Desktop
> > 
> >     Include utilities and enhancements that allow GNOME OS to perform at its
> >     best on a desktop computer.
> > 
> > [ ] Laptop
> > 
> >     Include utilities and enchancements that allow GNOME OS to perform at
> >     its best on a laptop or portable, such as power saving, support for
> >     special laptop hardware with PCMCIA, and subpixel antialiasing for LCD
> >     screens. [1]
> > 
> > Then we choose a *whole bunch* of stuff like noflushd, pcmcia modules by
> > default, ext2, subpixel AA for laptop users, maybe even VPN software.
> > Desktop users get ext3, and run more daemons by default depending on
> > usefulness (more daemons on notebooks means more chance of waking them up
> > with logging and hard disk activity).
> 
> + anacron + pmud/apmd + sleepd (needs some loving though)
> 
> :)
> 
> -- 
> /Bastien Nocera
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