Author: sajolida Date: To: The Tails public development discussion list, info@thomas-engelmann.de Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] [Tails-project] I habe a humble proposal for the
Starprocedure of Tails
intrigeri: >> I habe a humble proposal:
>
>> How about a Timecounter ( maybe 30 sec.) that means: When you DONT change Options,
>> the System will run with the standard Options?
>
> What would be the benefit? Simply pressing the Enter key has the same
> effect if you're fine with the defaults, and I suspect that most Tails
> users need to change at least the language and/or keyboard layout.
>
> The main drawback I see with this proposal is that it breaks
> a use-case that's probably quite common: "I start Tails, look
> elsewhere for a few minutes, and come back hoping to find the Greeter
> and to set e.g. my preferred language".
I agree with intrigeri as I do that every day :)
And also we are trying hard no to have default values that could be
harmful to some use cases, but this is not always possible. For example,
starting Tor without bridges by default could be dangerous for some people.