> Ciao all, this is my first email to GNOME Love (so if you DO recollect
> my name, then you have a memory problem :) > > Joachim, I feel what you are saying and what David is proposing are > not two essentially conflicting points of view. > David wants to give an option to GUI users to learn how to use the > command line: he feels user that want to go to the next level may > enjoy such didactic tool. His proposal seems brilliant to > me: while performing > every day activities with GNOME a user can also learn how to solve the > same problems using a terminal. Such feature would be optional and > disabled by default, so not to get in the way of those users that > would be only confused by it. Please, also notice one last > thing: adding such > an option would not mean that GNOME hackers have to stop doing every > possible effort to spare the terminal to those users that would rather > not touch one with a long stick: in an ideal GUI environment, no user > has to use the command line, but that doesn't mean that learn how to > use one is not a good thing. OK, one more point and I am really done: > the more fundamental reason why I *really* like David's proposal is > that it goes in the commendable direction of helping users to better > understand how computers work. And that's in my opinion is the most > user-friendly gift any GUI can give to its users. Well I still hate the idea, I still think the command line is a burden on the memory, and it's not our place to turn users into geeks. But... If you're really set on this, I think some sort of log window would be better than tooltips popping up all over. [chris] I agree, mainly because you cannot cut/copy text from a tooltip. Imagine something like the calendar window that pops down from the panel clock, but with a little log that shows the command each time you perform an action. You could save a selection from it as a shell script, or copy a line to the terminal. (Which of course would be a GUI action... should that show in the command list too? Unravel that paradox...!) (still hate the idea though ;) [chris] Too bad the only program I am working on is a little video game for GNOME, where such a feature doesn't have a place :-( ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Photos - NEW, now offering a quality print service from just 8p a photo http://uk.photos.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ gnome-love mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love
