To be more verbose now I've had caffeine No-one wants to think of themselves as a novice So everyone turns on Expert mode Then we end up with a mess
Also, the distinction between Novice and Expert is domain specific I may be an expert in sound editing, but not in graphics design What mode do I select? We have expert mode already gconf-editor. Tweak to your hearts content. If you want a fancy UI for it, make a TweakUI tool Problem solved. On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Iain * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No. > It doesn't work > See past times this has come up > And Nautilus circa 1999 > iain > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Zarshark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> For the sake of all different users that use the gnome desktop environment, >> I suggest a new very simple application which can set the user type (i.e. >> novice, medium, expert). >> The idea is the global setting of a user profile that can add or remove some >> configurable functions of the gnome applications. >> In this way, a novice user can set a minimalistic desktop (default gnome), >> instead a medium or expert one can have more functions. >> >> To do this, the application needs to set a new environment variable that set >> the user type. >> So, every gnome application must read that environment variable and >> costumize their "Preference" menuitem, in relationship of the user type. >> >> This would be an extension of the gnome concept, mantaining the minimalistic >> idea for all new user, but allowing medium and expert users to configure >> more and a novice user to improve its ability IF AND ONLY IF he/she wants >> (that is an answer to the Linus Torwald's sentence "This 'users are idiots, >> and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you >> think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use Gnome, >> because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where >> it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.", without changing your >> perspective but giving to the medium and expert user more interest in this >> environment.). >> >> Regards >> Piero Dalle Pezze >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Usability mailing list >> Usability@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability >> >> > _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
