On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 06:08 -0700, landon kelsey wrote: > Once I rented a small Cessna C152 from a company at the airport. > > I have many many hours in many types of aircraft! > > I had a problem with the C152 at this particular company. > > The instructors at the company recommended I get an additional > checkout to learn how to "run" this C152. I refused! Insanity! > > They finally woke up when the mechanic was flying the aircraft and > lost the engine! > > I am NOT going to the KDE site and reading anything! > > I haven't so far and I will not! > > A desktop should be a intuitive measure and KDE has been up until now! > > --- On Thu, 9/11/08, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > From: Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: KDE 4.1 Desktop, folder view, panel and widget > tips and tricks thread. > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 7:59 AM > > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 11:29 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > landon kelsey <landonmkelsey <at> yahoo.com> writes: > > > ridiculous! does anybody put directions on a toilet? > > > > Many people do... > > http://images.google.com/images?q=toilet+instructions > > The image from "2001" is classic. It's said to be the only joke > in the > movie. > > There's a fascinating book by Donald Norman called "The Design of > Everyday Things" which looks at how non-obvious many "obvious" > things > are (e.g. hot and cold taps, light switches etc. in the US vs. Europe). > > poc > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > 1) There's no such thing as "universally intuitive". Intuition is a question of experience and cultural background. 2) Please stop posting in fixed-format text. It's a pain in the neck to edit when replying. 3) Please read the list Guidelines (see URL at the end of every posting to this list) and stop top-posting. (And on a personal note: the! use! of! excessive! exclamation! marks! is! extremely! distracting! and! does! not help! communication!). poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
