begin quoting gossamer axe as of Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 03:38:02PM -0700: > We are computer enthusiasts, I think sometimes we forget that there > are a lot of people out there that can't program their VCR let alone > trying to setup any server software.
I can vouch for many VCRs being needlessly hard to program. Also, most remotes have _lousy_ button layouts. They *look* sexy, but you have to turn on the light and look at the remote to do very much with it. :( > I'm not picking on you or trying > to put down your post, but the majority of internet users don't want > to fuss with anything except double clicking on a program and > expecting it to load and work right. =P Remember, double-click is a hard-to-learn concept. (Seriously.) And by "work right" you naturally mean the DWIM protocol, not the engineer-friendly DWIS protocol. Actually, this came up the other day -- the average "I don't want to know what's going on under the hood" person can relatively easily be talked into wanting three quantities, A, B, and C, such that A > B, and B > C, and C > A. All it takes is asking the right questions in the right order... So going with how the average person wants things to work isn't necessarily, by itself, a good idea. The desires of the end-user need to be tempered with the sensibilities of the developers. > All I wanted to try to do > is take my scripts, which do run on a webserver, and put them in a > nice pretty little GUI type program that is a no fuss double click on > me and I run program. But, something I can deal with as far as a > programming language that I'll have some hair left after I finish the > program =P I've seen PHP used as an application-building language. . . But for "here's a list, click on something, do _that_", I can't think of much that would beat TCL/TK. In fact, somewhere I have a script that takes in a config file and turns it into a launcher button-bar. -Stewart "Now-a-days I just use WindowMaker." Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
