On Feb 5, 2008 3:59 PM, Jari Rahkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The "user" in user friendly refers to both newbies and us so called > power users. I don't subscribe to the idea that being user friendly > somehow automatically has to make the app less powerful. The UI needs to > be clean and logical to be efficient and provide the necessary amount of > (but not too many) options and configurability with sane defaults, and > everybody wins. > > Xfce doesn't make being lightweight its only priority and I don't think > we should either. The only assumption we should make is that people > don't want to spend time fiddling with their system or learn unnecessary > stuff when they could be doing something productive instead. > > - Jari >
I'm not trying to imply that the applications aren't (or can't be) easy to use. I'm just saying that they don't go to the same lengths to do any hand-holding like some GNOME and KDE apps do.
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