Mathieu Sorry for not responding before now but your message scored just high enough on my spam detection to get a maybe score and was therefore not delivered to my inbox.
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 08:08 -0400, Mathieu Avoine wrote: [snip] > Also, as for the shortcuts (part of the answer I gave to Steve one on > one), I think the GUI should be self explained to some extent. In > other words, the average user should not have to read the > documentation to use it. I personally never read a manual to use > (almost) any software I ever used. [snip] > > Some of the greatest features of F-Spot are not THAT obvious in the > GUI. Telling users to RTFM is not a solution, I'm sorry. Unless we > change that mindset that plagues the linux community, we can forget > about broad adoption of foss right there. Firstly I think that the fact that you, me, and David managed to make use of F-Spot without reading the docs says that the application is discoverable. Because I agree that telling newbies to RTFM is not a solution. But that was not what I was saying. I think there are times when reading the documentation (or in short RTFM) is the best (if not only) way to advance your knowledge of a application. If your happy with the way you use a tool then don't bother, but the documentation was written for a reason and reading it should be second nature if you use the application a lot. Steve _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
