Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 13:02:59 10/24/03
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>I had to write my own XF86Config from scratch [etc] The point is: on windows this is a simple properties page, on linux it is an arcane text file. You could figure it out, because you are a programmer. Your mother wouldn't understand a byte of that file, and it would take her much more than 10 seconds of looking at documentation. Then, she'd make some silly error, X would complain, and she'd go run windows. Allow me to quote from Joel On Software: USERS DON'T READ MANUALS >and I know that every program has a way to change the >printer settings basically the same way, and it's almost always in the File >menu, so I go right to it and look around for maybe 5 seconds and find the >option she wants and it works. [etc] This is because Windows applications have a *consistent look and feel* which is what I was harping on before. anthony
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