"Frederik Nnaji" <frederik.nn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>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. That's only true if you don't care about losing the people that got Ubuntu to the edge of the chasm. I'm reasonably certain that's not the case. Scott K _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
