Il 23/10/2002 alle 22:20:06, -0400, Luke Seubert ha scritto: > Precisely. One of the hardest parts for folks switching from Windows to > Linux (and I have personally helped a fair number over the years) is that > ALL the names for the programs are different. Couple this with learning a > new GUI interface, and the effect is most frustrating and disorienting for > the newbie. Let's take away this pain by simplifying things wherever > possible, and using labels, not program names. The point, the concept and the idea are good, i'm afraid the results will be bad. Forget Windows, in any case i think Mac is better in that sense, but this is not the point. The problem is, i verified this with my experience and experiments too, that if you use the same names/structures as in Wodnows/Mac to make life easier you will run into another problem: people then expect the same behaviour, the same way of configuring, the same way things happen, which is not the case, and they do not understand the difference they just jump to the conclusion that "this does not work..etc..". It is better making up names that are clear, easy to understand by a non unix professional user, avoinding to copy the feel&look *like* either from Windows or Mac. In general, but again without copying it, just a good case study, i would rather take a look on how Apple did the switch from System 9 to osX, which is Unix/BSD based but still user friendly, at least for old time Apple users. ciao, marco -- ************************************************************************ * marco trevisani * * http://trevisani.mine.nu marco@centrotemporeale.it * * http://www.agnula.org -- A GNU/Linux Audio Distribution * * Neither MS-Word nor MS-PowerPoint attachments please: * * See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html * * Gpg Fingerprint = 6096 84B8 046C A5C9 B538 255E 9FFF 1121 3AFB FFA6 * ************************************************************************
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