Re: MIME interface suggestions

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 19:31 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2004-09-02 at 17:59, Sri Ramkrishna wrote:
> > Back in the Eazel days, Nautilus had a concept of "user levels" where
> > one could change user levels to advanced, neophyte etc etc.  
> 
> And everyone confident is "advanced" and everyone nervous is
> "neophyte" and/or insulted. Palm seems somehow to have captured the
> notion of exploration - as you explore an app you find features but it
> never forces them on you.

Yes, there is that problem of defining the levels and whether one really
fits into them or is it wishful thinking.  Even starting out with a
questionaire to determine user level is bad.  There are some other ones
as well. So yeah, user levels is probably crack.

> 
> 
> > Perhaps, we
> > could use that idea as  way to add things to the context menu.  I mean
> > if people want lots of stuff in their context menu who are we to stand
> > in their way?  But at least wtih user levels we could still target our
> > main audience.
> 
> Why do you need "user levels". Providing the user adds stuff to their
> context menu thent they ought to be allowed to do so. The problem is if
> the applications, the install and the like suddenely give a user 30
> options they didn't want.

Yeah, I agree there.  

sri