On Saturday 01 September 2001 05:27, Paul Cox wrote:
> On Friday, Aug 31, 2001, SI Reasoning wrote:
> > Too much to expect people to be that aware when lulled
> > into easy upgrades through the software manager.
>
> Or better yet, display it in the list, but make it impossible to upgrade
> it. If they try, have it pop up a window with the notice in it so they
> can see how to upgrade.
Come on now, if you have read anything about what the coders at Sun had to
say about Gnome and how to understand ordinary users, you should know better.
Coders in general are tought to read code, that's why they seldom miss out on
any logic step in an instruction. Look at many of the earlier HOWTO's, in
order to be pedagogic they grew far more technical as all steps necessary was
descibed in exact technical terms.
Man in general does not think, he recognices pattern that he has used before.
That's why it is of fundamental importance that the usual steps taken by a
user is known to them that constructs GUI's.
I for instance tested 'rpm -Fvh *.rpm' to see if there was a safety net for
the newbie. You who code in C should know that contrary to ADA the latest
discussion about min-max in the kernel, does hardly specify a scientific
instrument.
If the user is trained to visit Mdk's homepage for security notes, then all
relevant information could be given there.
regards
guran
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Mandrake 8.0 kernel 2.4.7-12.3
