Actually I was thinking about the same kind of thing, but
based on the KDE module. The next release of KOffice will be
a gret improvement over the current one, and some
applications such as Scribus (a Quark XPress-like DTP
application) would deserve to be part of it. Also, consider
that the KDE printing layer offers a simple way to export
your documents to PDF.
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A business desktop would be simple and functional like XFCE
or KDE are with games stripped out, ONE utility for each task
in the menu (i.e. one editor, one browser, one mail client).
The gui config tools for the distro should all be grouped
together in the graphical menu (e.g. M$ Winders
Settings\Control Panel). Limit how deep in the "start" or "K"
menu you have to go to launch an application unless it is
rarely used (limit should be 5 levels). Actually the LightGUI
version would be pretty close if you just customized it a little
and removed games. Most people could figure it out in a
short time.
See the Linux GUI usability studies for KDE and Gnome. They
are very eye opening.
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How would a business desktop differ from an ordinary desktop?
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Actually I was thinking about the same kind of thing, but
based on the KDE module. The next release of KOffice will be
a gret improvement over the current one, and some
applications such as Scribus (a Quark XPress-like DTP
application) would deserve to be part of it. Also, consider
that the KDE printing layer offers a simple way to export
your documents to PDF.
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A business desktop would be simple and functional like XFCE
or KDE are with games stripped out, ONE utility for each task
in the menu (i.e. one editor, one browser, one mail client).
The gui config tools for the distro should all be grouped
together in the graphical menu (e.g. M$ Winders
Settings\Control Panel). Limit how deep in the "start" or "K"
menu you have to go to launch an application unless it is
rarely used (limit should be 5 levels). Actually the LightGUI
version would be pretty close if you just customized it a little
and removed games. Most people could figure it out in a
short time.
See the Linux GUI usability studies for KDE and Gnome. They
are very eye opening.
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Better a version with an Internet shopping chart and visa
card support.