Re: How do I get rid of the "launchpad" in XFCE?
On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 15:20 -0200, André Nunes Batista wrote:
> Panel 0 and Panel 1 were such an cool way to teach gui users to count.
The saner style is to call the first panel "panel one" instead of "panel
zero". To name it "panel zero" even won't teach anything about logical
issues about indexation. Off-By-One-Errors aren't user problems, but
just a problem of bad programmers. To count the distance between musical
notes, IOW to name the distance, too name the intervals, it would make
sense to start with 0, but to number panels it's wrong to start with 0.
The names of intervals in music are not correct, to name the first panel
"panel 1" is correct, it would be wrong to name it "panel 0".
It's not cool to teach somebody how to count wrong. Reconsider that your
thought is a mistake. Even when programming in assembler, to start with
0 while meaning 1 often is not done for logical reasons, but just to win
an extra number representable by some bits, if zero isn't needed.
Regards,
Ralf
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