Shall we support the autorun feature?

[Peter Damoc]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 08:29:00 -0800, Karl Hegbloom <hegbloom at pdx.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 14:37 +0000, Martin Alderson wrote:
>>
>> It also improves the user experience by miles. Look at how hard it is
>> for the average user to install a game. On Windows it's insert the CD
>> and click next. On Linux it's open terminal, goto root, type some
>> cryptic command with symbols that users do not use normally, and hope
>> it works. This is not acceptable.
>
> They can insert the CD, get an icon on the desktop of a CD-ROM disc, and
> either an automatic or double-click to get a Nautilus view of it.  They
> can then double-click the 'setup' program icon.  Inserting the CD,
> typing 'pmount cdrom', then running the setup program from the command
> line with /media/cdrom/setup is really not that difficult either.

Having a goal orientated system should be the target.
True... it might not be very "hard" for users to put the CD, type something then navigate somewhere BUT that's not their goal, their goal is to see what's on that CD and something like an autorun feature can help them get faster to their goal.
Ok.... so there might be some security issues or some philosophical issues BUT this should dictate if that option should be enabled by default NOT if that option should exist.

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