RE: [gnome-love] Where to make a policy suggestion?

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- "Christian Sasso (csasso)" <csasso cisco com>
wrote:

> Ciao all, this is my first email to GNOME Love (so
> if you DO recollect
> my name, then you have a memory problem :)
>
> Joachim, I feel what you are saying and what David
> is proposing are not
> two essentially conflicting points of view.
> David wants to give an option to GUI users to learn
> how to use the
> command line: he feels user that want to go to the
> next level may enjoy
> such didactic tool. His proposal seems brilliant to
> me: while performing
> every day activities with GNOME a user can also
> learn how to solve the
> same problems using a terminal. Such feature would
> be optional and
> disabled by default, so not to get in the way of
> those users that would
> be only confused by it. Please, also notice one last
> thing: adding such
> an option would not mean that GNOME hackers have to
> stop doing every
> possible effort to spare the terminal to those users
> that would rather
> not touch one with a long stick: in an ideal GUI
> environment, no user
> has to use the command line, but that doesn't mean
> that learn how to use
> one is not a good thing. OK, one more point and I am
> really done: the
> more fundamental reason why I *really* like David's
> proposal is that it
> goes in the commendable direction of helping users
> to better understand
> how computers work. And that's in my opinion is the
> most user-friendly
> gift any GUI can give to its users.

Well I still hate the idea, I still think the command
line is a burden on the memory, and it's not our place
to turn users into geeks.

But...
If you're really set on this, I think some sort of log
window would be better than tooltips popping up all
over.
Imagine something like the calendar window that pops
down from the panel clock, but with a little log that
shows the command each time you perform an action.
You could save a selection from it as a shell script,
or copy a line to the terminal. (Which of course would
be a GUI action... should that show in the command
list too? Unravel that paradox...!)

(still hate the idea though ;)


                
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