Strigidaemon

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Tuesday 01 April 2008, Randy Kramer wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 April 2008 03:48 am, Louai Al-Khanji wrote:
> > Having dialogs pop up at unsuspecting users is not very nice. :)  I think
>
> most
>
> > users will not know what they are configuring, and especially not _why_
> > they are configuring it. IMHO it would be better to have a default
> > configuration that suits most people, and provide a (convenient) way to
> > tailor strigi settings for power users.
>
> IMHO, having some program start running, using lots of my cpu and memory
> (I'm thinking back to kat, but is any indexing program much better?), is
> worse than a one-time (unless you request to be reminded) popup that tells
> me there is an application named strigi whicht will be started by default
> (at each boot?)  and will index such and such directories by default unless
> I change the configuration now (or later, by asking to be reminded).
>
> Aside: Have the usability people weighed in on this?  (Or been asked?)
>
> This popup occurs either during installation or the first time a user logs
> in (or something along those lines), not every time the user logs in.
>
> Can't "we" make a popup that is relatively self-explanatory and "gentle"?
>
> Trying a first draft (for the first time it pops up).

I'm afraid nobody will read that much.

Alex