Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 07:05:29 04/07/04
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On April 07, 2004 at 09:39:50, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >Sune, there are three kinds of people in the world. > >1. People that can't edit configuration files (90%) >2. People that don't want to edit configuration files (9.9%) >3. System admins (0.1%) I think the numbers are more like this: 1. People that can't edit configuration files (90%) 2. People that don't want to edit configuration files (99%) 3. System admins (0.1%) Group 1 obvious have a great problem. The question if the best solution for them is to learn the basics once and for all, or if all the programmers should for all eternaty develop to lowest common denominator. The price for doing the latter is that you risk making inferior software for those who are able to handle more complex tools. Ie. I'm very unhappy about MS deciding not bother with making a good text shell for windows. >IMHO, the best linux programs have text configuration files (so that almost >limitless configurability is possible) and GUI frontends (so that when I just >want the stupid thing to work, it works). Yeah, I feel the same way. -S. >I think the whole book is pretty interesting, but for a start, read this chapter >(Joel Spolsky on UI design): > >http://joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000064.html > >anthony
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