Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 07:09:07 04/07/04
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On April 07, 2004 at 10:05:29, Sune Fischer wrote: Client is king. >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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