apps choice for Ubuntu and installation choices

[Magnus Blomfelt]

Anders Karlsson wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 19:40 +0200, Magnus Blomfelt wrote:
> [snip]
> 
>>Installation aside, what do you think of being able to add/remove the
>>mentioned application packages after installation?
> 
> 
> That is what 'tasksel' has been doing for yonks.
Yes. (screenshot here, http://henning.cco-ev.de/gallery/tasksel/debcc6)


>>What do you think about being able to set these application packages
>>permission in 'Users and Groups'?
> 
> 
> I don't quite follow what you are attempting to do here, or what the
> purpose would be. Can you elaborate on this please?

OK, I will give it a try, please tell me if you want more details...

1. Installation
As Matt was saying it would not fit with the minimal installation.
However, what I was thinking about before Matts posts, was that being
able to have a reasonably easy third option between server and full
desktop could sometimes be useful.
An example would be my old computer not connected to the Internet,
then I would simply select not to install any Internet applications.
Some company might select to not install any games.

2. Post Install
Since an install option wasn't feasible, I thought it would be nice
for me to be able to uninstall applications as a group since it would
atleast be a time saver.
In the example of my old computer above I would uninstall all
Internet applications (and load it with MAME instead).

3. Permissions in 'Users and Groups'
For instance click a user, select the Properties button and use
the new tab 'application groups'. This tab could have a check box
for each of the application groups and deselecting one of them
would make it impossible for the user to use the installed
applications included in that application group.
In the company example above, they might select to not let a certain
user group use the games group. (The one the boss is not in)

All in all my ideas are just an alternative approach to identifying
large user groups with different needs as suggested further up the
thread. Instead I thought it would be nice to let users them selves
identify and select their needs. Most users would probably still use
the default option, but I think for some this alternative would save
some time.

But hey, this was just me tossing ideas around, if it doesn't fit
with Ubuntu I respect that. Matt and the other developers know their
stuff alot more than I do...