Re: A proposal to improve dselect
On Tue, 7 Jan 1997 sfuqua@fuquasc.wab.wku.edu wrote:
> I agree that dselect has some problems for users who are new to it. I
> too have seen people who where experienced with unix and who were
> mystified by dselect at first.
In concept, dselect is great. It's an attempt to create a user interface
that's not based on the window/pulldown menu interface that (I believe) is
highly overrated. It's nice because for whatever use a window system has,
it's not the only way to do things. I do not believe that it is "gui
(windows) vs. command line." Those are only two ways. dselect is different
and I like that.
The problem with dselect, I think, is that the user quickly gets lost in the
context. Think of using a computer program as watching a movie: there's a
certain sequence to it and it will make sense. It's like dselect skips a
sequence somewhere, gets too much into its own terminology too quickly, and
the user's lost.
Bottom line is I think dselect's a good thing but something has to be
changed. Maybe dselect doesn't go far _enough_ in it's direction, I don't
know. But Debian can be difficult to install and to do package maintenance,
and that has to change.
Michael Stutz | DESIGN SCIENCE LABS
http://dsl.org/m | Hypermedia, Internet,
Linux/GNU bumper stickers,indie rock,rants | Linux: http://dsl.org
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to Bruce@Pixar.com
Reply to: