@Chow Loong Jin As a senior software architect, I have evidence that I am qualified to pass judgment on less insightful code-slingers. You missed the whole point of the post / bug report. The point was that when released, 8.04 did not allow users to share folders or files. Instead what has happened is that you people that work in the Linux world seem to feel that you are justified in telling the user he/she did not properly report the problem, or that the problem is an end user problem. You have lost sight that that if a user cannot preform a typical function, then maybe just maybe it is a problem with how you did your job, not with the end user. As long as there are people such as yourself working this platform, then Linux will never be widely accepted because you always get yourself lost in the minute details of what the poor dumb user did wrong.
You cannot see the Forrest for the trees, you have your focus on the wrong thing, you need to look at the end user experience and ask your self, what could I have done to make the experience more reliable ? have you done this ? NO, what you did is to transfer the problem to poor user skills, when in reality it was poor software engineering skills. My friend, just because it works in your mind does not mean it works in the mind of the less skillful or seasoned Linux user. the problem is simple, a user reported a problem sharing files, instead of looking into why the simple act of file sharing was soo complicated, you decided to see what the user did wrong. That is why Linux will never become an accepted OS, because Linux never has the thought that the problem is the code designer, not the end user. I had the very same problem sharing files in 8.04, it was supposed to be a simple process, but not one support person actually looked to see why the act of sharing a file/folder was not working for end users, instead what you all do/did was look at how the end user could do things differently to succeed. !!!! Its not the end users job to understand how to get around short sighted coders, its the job of coders to make the process more positive and fruitful. STOP telling the end users they are the problem when a coder could have made the simple task of sharing a file simple. Your mind set is wrong. -- "share folder" does not appear https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215810 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
