On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 19:58, Scott Kitterman <ubu...@kitterman.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 01, 2010 07:17:55 pm Frederik Nnaji wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 19:16, Scott Kitterman <ubu...@kitterman.com> > wrote: > > > If you're using apt-get, then you aren't in the target audience Ayatana > > > is designing for. > > > > I think the CLI is definitely part of an ordinary Ubuntu experience for > > about 50% of Ubuntu users.. imagine getting workarounds from forums and > > wiki sites into place without guiding the novice through the CLI for a > few > > commands.. > > > > Apart from that, getting the CLI dialogs right is an essential step in > the > > evolution of interface metaphors. The GUI is born in the CLI, if you ask > > me.. > > Right is a function of the audience. I think that CLI package management > users are more likely to be annoyed by excessively nanyish warnings from > their > package manager than helped by them. > I agree, "right" depends on who's lookin. on another note.. i'm feeling like there's still too much developer vs consumer here.. Traits of elitarism. The new concept is prosumer aka community-driven, everyone contributes, using is participating already. There is also little sense in classifying groups of users by the applications they use in this particular context: community is a classless system.
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