On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 22:30, Scott Kitterman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Not all users have the same level of experience. That's unavoidable. > that's good, diversity is an asset, not a staller. > In general (not always, but in general) more experienced users will be more > like to use more command line tools in their regular use of the system. As > a > result, I think it's a safe assumption that the typical command line user > knows more about the system than one would consider normal for GUI based > tools. > Yep, makes sense to me.. > More experienced users tend to find excessive warnings about things that > are > generally well understood to be off-putting.Adding them as Ubuntu specific > changes reinforces the notion that Ubuntu is only for beginners and not for > people who know what they are doing. We don't want that. > > So feel free to put all the training wheels you think are needed in the > GUI, > but don't extend the same concepts to the command line. > I understand your position and i agree with most of it, too. While we surely share the same opinion on much of what has been discussed here, i am developing a mental model of how there can be a learnable, consistent and semantically correct symmetry between command line interface and graphical user interface.. The foundation of my unborn brainchild is that a dialog is a dialog, whether in a GUI or in the CLI.. perhaps i'm going too far with my thinking
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