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On Tuesday 26 November 2002 12:47, Jesse Kline wrote:
> Your comments remind me of another article I read awhile ago about having
> different setting levels for different types of users. This was something
> that was origionally in Nautilus, but was taken out for 2.0. Check it out:
> http://www.erick.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3
user levels don't work. the salient reasons:
o there is no such thing as an advanced user or a beginner user. someone may
be advanced in reading email but no nothing about managing file permissions
or setting up their desktop panel. or visa versa. so you either end up with
crippled apps or a fine grained control of userlevels, leading to just as
many options as you had before
o it creates support nightmares (different people using different random
assortments of options)
o people almost never gauge their own "level" correctly (either setting it
too advanced or too simple)
o it prevents people from learning advanced features.
o there are other solutions that actually work. like good design.
> If the fs was "hidden" I don't think it would be too much of a problem for
> power users. You would still see / in the tree view (according to the
> article) and it would npt be hard to point your file manager or terminal to
> any place on the fs that you please. However for a normal user you would
> not have to worry about these types of things as you could live confortably
> within your "userspace" world.
this assumes that users who can't handle the concepts of the UNIX fs ever need
to use it. how many normal users need really anything outside of ~/ ?
i've used Mac OS X and found their directory structure unnecessary and a
nuisance. new users still don't find it more accessable, advanced users
(especially those used to more standard systems) often get annoyed by it....
we should simply strive to make the FS something that isn't seen at all. make
it invisible, not approachable for drooling morons (and therefore useless for
everyone else).
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Aaron J. Seigo
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"
- Albert Einstein
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