Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 14:32:52 10/24/03
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On October 24, 2003 at 16:02:59, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>>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
On this particular point (the graphic X system configuration) this problem has
disappeared long ago.
Under Red Hat Linux I just do Menu > System settings > Display and I get a nice
display configuration tool that allows me to change the screen resolution, depth
and monitor settings.
Nowadays you almost never have to edit a configuration file manually.
You can, if you wish to tweaks some settings, but you don't have to in order to
get a perfectly working Linux desktop computer.
Linux has evolved very quickly, and what was true last year is not true anymore.
In particular the negative things are not true anymore, mostly.
>>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.
It's now almost the case with Linux applications.
I mean that you can find applications that will follow the KDE or Gnome
guidelines and use only those applications. Actually that's what I do. I have
rejected some applications of which I did not like the look and feel.
Most applications provided by the Red Hat (and Mandrake...) distribution have
already been selected because their look and feel is consistent, or they have
been rewritten for this.
So I don't see this as an issue either.
Christophe
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