-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
Peter Boy wrote: | That's right, indeed. But there are a lot who don't care about the | technical side but just want to work with a browser, an office suite and | a mailer in a stable environment.
I agree completely with you on this. It is time for us to give them what the want! Childs Play is what people like. Point and click. The main thing is to make Linux (Fedora) so easy to use, people will never have to use the shell. People think that it is a bad thing. As if that happens the shell will be taken away from them. I think if people designed their software to have simple mode and expert mode that it would make things allot easier for your everyday Joe to use. Let us take a calculator program for example. It is a very basic application. A good software design that I like in a calculator program is to have the basic and the scientific views. Now this done and said that is what we need to do with most software. Your everyday person will never even use the scientific view, but it will always be there if you need to use it. You may think that you always use the scientific view. Now you are just not your everyday person now are you. In short I am saying make all configs GUI point and click. No more of this go to the shell thing. You can always do it that way if you like. Leave that option in. After all it is GNU Linux. We need point and click partitioning, formating, install and uninstall applications, module adding and disabling, and just about anything else you can think of. Simply put, if you need to open a shell for a task make a GUI for it. Anything you can think of for everyday use. I can list hundreds of people that would use Linux if this was so. Like I was talking to someone today about drop and burn cds in Fedora. That would be a great thing to add to start with. So many things to say that I don't want to bore you all with it. If the every person you are after then make it so. We already use Linux so don't try to get us to use it ;). We already are :). Now let us make applications or GUI front ends to simple tasking commands that would scare my Mom from ever using a computer again.
Cheers,
P.S. Please don't bash me for this. It is just an opinion and I think that we are thinking on the wrong terms. We already have all the smartest or whatever you want to call us people using Linux. Shell crazy commando freaks. Now let us make the tools to get the rest of the world to use Linux too. Like my Mom asked me last week "If Linux is so much better why can't I right click the CD and burn some songs?". I paused for a second and said that is something I would like to change. - -- Jonathan C. Sitte <jcsitte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Digital Arts & Computer Technology http://www.staticnull.org/jcsitte/ 917.414.2559 M-F 8AM-10PM
Public Key: http://www.staticnull.org/jcsitte/0x40E69A47-pubkey.asc
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
iD8DBQE/t1yrbzreREDmmkcRAsLOAJ9cFh2EwzhMLJX83l2kAUuf0gMDHACfa6uI jAxNfAeBUCn05SN99unGTzI= =v1Tf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
