John Levon wrote:
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:49:07AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
You already failed. Why would I get used to it, when I can just go use
TeXMacs and mark my stuff up as I like?
But you (as a user) are free to go use other software (and apparently
you do already). Finger painting is not our niche as far as I know.
The typical Word or OO user has to unlearn a lot of things to use LyX
efficiently, that would be another thing.
The things they are unlearning are bad things. "Natural selection"* is
not a bad thing, but you're making them unlearn it anyway. For what
advantange? Ease of implementation as far as I can tell.
No, that's not all of it. I am not going to repeat the same arguments
all over again.
regards
john
* I'm sorry.
And I am sorry to think the exact opposite. Is this bad? I don't think
so, the world is big enough for multiple POV :-)
I am repeating myself but we have pretty fundamentally different POV
about what seems natural. Mine is perhaps weird but it seems that I am
not alone thinking this way. So the question is: should we please the
masses (i.e. you ;-)) or us, selfish, careless developers that happen to
be users too? I don't have an answer to that question. Hence my proposal
to implement both UI and be done with it.
Abdel.
