On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 10:57:03PM +0930, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 14:39 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > Also a GUI tends to be a moving target, thereby making > > what documentation there is out of date. > > A good GUI shouldn't need documentation, though; it should explain > itself intuitively, and provide some hints for the more difficult bits. I have an ex-student who made a claim like this recently. His company produces a product that needs no documentation. It is "intuitively obvious" he says. Balderdash. I am still waiting for the program that needs no documentation. I think I will die first. Linux Journal put me on to search tools recently. I am frustrated that kfind for example has no man page, and I would still like to know how you search jpegs using it. That is certainly not obvious to me and that annoys me. > > A GUI does make it easier to set either/or options (won't let you do > both), and provide other multiple choice options. But some are just > woeful, take Evolution's "automatically synchronise remote mail locally" > option. What does that mean? The manual doesn't explain. I'd have to > do a series of tests to work out if that means keep messages available > locally and remotely, copy missing messages or delete local copy of a > remote message that was deleted by something else, and so on. I have > another mailer on Windows, The Bat!, with a really weird and hazardous > sounding option that I've never ticked because I can't find an > explanation: "purge unread messages". Why would I want to lose a > message I haven't read yet? > > -- > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- ======================================================================= Your love life will be... interesting. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
