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Posted: Feb. 06 2005,08:01 QUOTE
Ok, we all love DSL, yet constructive criticism is the lifeblood of evolution so, here we go...

1- splashscreen graphic not very appealing
2- the default fluxbox theme not very readable
3- too many fluxbox themes too choose from (sounded lame as soon as I wrote it)
4-default desktop background
5- default dillo info, better a real and complete starter guide but only in the menu or better ad a .dsl
5-default console (I'd like aterm better)
6-not one real usable word processor
7-its hard to find 10 faults
8-a database app a little more powerful than index
9-a bit more user-friendlyness (considering that that would turn DSL into the primary linux promotion tool on the planet)
10-it does not make me coffee in the morning
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Posted: Feb. 06 2005,08:35 QUOTE
Quote (flying tuxman @ Feb. 06 2005,03:01)
Ok, we all love DSL, yet constructive criticism is the lifeblood of evolution so, here we go...

1- splashscreen graphic not very appealing
2- the default fluxbox theme not very readable
3- too many fluxbox themes too choose from (sounded lame as soon as I wrote it)
4-default desktop background
5- default dillo info, better a real and complete starter guide but only in the menu or better ad a .dsl
5-default console (I'd like aterm better)
6-not one real usable word processor
7-its hard to find 10 faults
8-a database app a little more powerful than index
9-a bit more user-friendlyness (considering that that would turn DSL into the primary linux promotion tool on the planet)
10-it does not make me coffee in the morning

I'm a first time user of DSL and I can't really find merit to any of your complaints. I like the plain look. This isn't meant to be a linux you spend too much time in I'd think. I'd reckon most work here would be sysadmin work (well, xmms I guess is needed to listen to ... something, while working. Although it's not quite justified.

Anyway, one problem I do have with it is... where is SCREEN?!?!

How can you do any serious work without using screen?
Also, locate and a default locate.db would be nice to see.
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Posted: Feb. 06 2005,10:31 QUOTE
>3- too many fluxbox themes too choose from (sounded lame as soon as I wrote it)

Personally I think a few of them could do with replacement, some are just plain unuseable (that said, it's fluxbox's standard set, not a DSL-specific thing).  Of course, you can just not use them...

> 5-default console (I'd like aterm better)

aterm can look nicer, but I don't know if there's enough space by default.  Or what other contributing factors there are in the choice.

>9-a bit more user-friendlyness (considering that that would turn DSL into the primary linux promotion tool on the planet)

Ditto.  Definitely has the potential.

>10-it does not make me coffee in the morning

I have something that occasionally does that, but she's not very user-friendly either!  :D

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Posted: Feb. 06 2005,17:02 QUOTE
With a lot of features, size has to be considered.  
4: Default background is SMALL, which makes it ideal.
5: I think putting the help in menu only would be a step away from user-friendly.
5 (the second 5): I also prefer aterm. However, rxvt is nearly the same but is a smaller size.
9: User-friendly usually implies much more point-and-click and more uniform windows-like interfaces, which means more bloat.  I don't think DSL will ever be as user-friendly as some of the larger distros for this reason.

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Posted: Feb. 06 2005,17:42 QUOTE
I think it is great that we are nit-picking the little things. It tells me that DSL is a very solid OS. Great job.

I would say that there are many 'theme' dsl's in the repository so if a useful app is just a few bytes away from fitting in the base, I would lose some of the styles and just keep a just a few.
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