On Monday 21 August 2006 08:52, Ian Cheong wrote: > No question about it, if you want GPs to use it, it had better be as > easy as a toaster,
Doubtless. But why oh why does everybody presume that a single click installer must preclude the option of a fine tuned manual installation if the user prefers it? Think of automatized installation on hundreds of systems. I can install most of the software I want on *all* computers of m network with a single command - no can do with single click GUI interfaces, when they are not scriptable. Anyway, "easy as toaster" means different things for different people under different circumstances. To me. "easy as toaster" is how my networks runs once it is setup properly. Zero administration. This is only possible because I know exactly what is running on my machines, how it is set up to work without causing any trouble or nasty interaction with other processes. Single click installs are fine for people who are used to their computers a) being used just by a single person, not networked b) computers crashing often c) computer doing something, but not necessarily what the user expects (single click the option that appeals to you) To me, anything that has a GUI means that it expects me to interact with it. There is in fact very, very little software I want to interact with. I expect my computer to do the work for me and not the other way round - meaning that most of my software is expected to run unattended, silently in the background without pestering me. The only thing a GUI is good for me is for interactive data entry (e.g. progress notes) and data browsing. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
