On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 11:44 -0400, David L wrote: > My original half-serious joke
was pretty funny... > was that if there is a need to perform some > operation frequently in a GUI application (like deleting indexes), it > is more user > friendly to have support for doing the operation built in to the > application. > Yes, people can read the mailing list and bug reports and find your > script and > run it. Having some automated thing either built into the app, or as a separate menu item would be an improvement, but with users, with advanced degrees, who ask questions like > Can someone help me? I seem to have had my trial balance icon removed > from my desktop. > there is no way I can deploy evolution to regular computer users. If an accountant with more than a decade of computer use can't grasp the concept of a desktop icon, they aren't going to fare well with a PIM that is constantly mis-displaying its state. (The last quote is actually the last email I read before I got David's response. It is typical.) -- Art Alexion Resources for Human Development, Inc. 215-951-0300 x3075 4700 Wissahickon Ave. a...@rhd.org Philadelphia, PA 19144 267-615-3172 IT, the last refuge of a scoundrel _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
