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Surely sendmail reeled when thusly spake Jarmo Lundgren: > > Only if the $$$ version sucks. With $$$ you (sometimes) get better > usability. Open source developers don't need to think usability. Or they > don't want to. Or the users they're making the software for can use even > a hair-dryer for internet connectivity, if needed, so they don't really > see usability as a problem. yeah but that's redhat's role. right now they sell a big box with a big book and 2 CD's for what ? 30$ ? they could sell it with a pamphlet and one CD and a floppy for 18$. books are expensive to print. a pamphlet for mom, with lots of screen shots, and a flyer for junior explaining how to pull down more redhat stuff from the net. oh, and make sure there's a solitaire on the floopy & CD. I mean, Solitaire is an institution. > >what's usable for a newbie ? > > > >software that does what you want, not what you say. > > > >that's hard to write. it has to be forgiving, and hyper-intuitive. > > > >and I don't see it being written. > > I liked the old Apple way: You needed to learn a couple of basic things and > then you could universalize them to everything in the computer. There were > only couple of things to begin with: The difference between clicking and > double-clicking, the idea of documents, the difference between documents > and the programs that make them, etc. well that sounds fine to me ! (I never did really have a chance to sit down and learn [from] Apple.) > You got more experienced on the way (even without noticing it yourself). > In a couple of years you could defragment your hard disk, administrate the > system extensions, track possible problems, etc. Most of the Windows-users > seldom learn all that. They remain on the "I just write email with my > computer" -level. ... and then call junior when my PC gets a virus. > My mom still doesn't know, when to click and when to double-click. (And > when to right-click, for that matter.) yup. these kinds of differences are pure mystery. > Anyway, Apple has left that idea behind. Now they sell Windows with > different skin. (UNIX under the skin if of course a good thing.) you mean, like a tattoo ? > > > Focus-follows is annoying! You've got this all upside down! :) > > > >I don't even know that all the focus options in KDE mean, > >and there's no online help to explain it. gr-r-r-... > > I'd like the mouse to follow my thought. well, it's on the way. they already have _monkeys_ moving things by pure thought. did everyone see the story ? f
