--- David Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Repeat steps 1-3 if you aren't looking for copies of
> the same disk.
But isn't putting a list of filenames into the
terminal a real pain?
(Especially since dragging files to it has a bug)
> The idea behind that being that you can have a
> different environment
> when logging in different ways. I can't give an
> example of when its
> useful because I don't have one for bash. I do for
> X though. If I'm
> logging in locally I want to run gnome because I
> don't need to worry
> about network lag. However, If I'm logging in over
> the network
Whoa stop right there... you can log in over the
network??? I wouldn't even know the purpose of that,
and I doubt more than 1% of users would either.
> > And that is one of our major problems. We're not
> on
> > the same level as the users we are hoping to reach
> > with GNOME.
>
> I agree. The solution isn't in hiding how things
> work though. We'd
> get a lot farther by finding developers who
> understand (or at least
> willing to listen to) the users who simply want to
> spend as little
> time at the computer as possible. Then sticking
> those developers with
> the not so desirable job of working between the
> developers and these
> users as a type of translator.
Introducing... the GNOME usability project :)
> In my opinion it would be ultimate if one had an
> incredible memory for
> options. But alas, I don't have my uncle's
> photographic memory, so
> I'll have to continue reading man pages repeatedly
> until the GUIs are
> up to par.
Exactly. Reading man pages is not my idea of fun.
Whereas one can figure out a GUI quite quickly. And
the documentation for GUIs is usually a lot better
than man pages. (At least I hope so -- I'm blowing my
own trumpet here, as I'm on the docs team :)
And perhaps this is the real difference between
hardcore command line users and the rest of us. The
former see the computer as a toy: learning how it
works is fun. I see the computer as a tool: it sits
between me and what I want to do, and it should be as
unobtrusive as possible.
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