On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:04:04 +0100, Roy Lanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Who cares about such numbers, can always astroturf them up.
Agreed ... in part.
On the other hand, consider that becoming familiar and acquainted with
Ion
demands some effort (why?--is another story; would all the users not be
*spoiled*, in the Pavlovian sense, the situation might be different).
Well, ease of use doesn't necessarily mean a short learning curve. If you
want to be able to use something 'intuitively' from the word go, of course
you're going to go for the WM with the most familiar concepts. That's why
Gnome's so popular -- they've gone out of their way to make themselves
more Windowsy (or, lack the imagination to come up with anything original,
depending on your POV).
Back to Ion (Vim, elvis, Mutt, LyX, cdrtools, ...), if you don't have a
knowledgeable tutor at hand, are not *enlightened* enough (but then we
have
I've found ion's documentation a lot, lot better than most other WM's. A
lot of them seem to take the approach "oh, well, we're 'easy to use' so we
shouldn't /need/ documentation", which works well until you want to do
something that isn't on their very pretty GUI.
Vim's actually an excellent example of my previous point, that ease of use
!= short learning curve. I'm pretty sure I don't know half of vim's
keybindings yet, but the ones I do know make it a lot easier than, say,
gedit. If I want to do something in vim, I'm usually quite confident that
that's because I don't know how to do it (and subsequently look it up)
rather than it lacks the feature.
<snip>
I'm not sure I follow your scuba anecdotes and talk of pheromones. But if
people want to use ion, great. If not, who cares? It's not like Tuomo's
trying to make money from having a large user base. It's a tool; you can
either choose to use it because it suits your needs, or you can use
something else.
Anyway, that's my 2p on it!
Nick
