A GUI interface is intrinsically user hostile,and best avoided. Any GUI is going to be "awful:" and dysfunctional. The only question is how dysfunctional it is going to be.
with that kind of attitude a lot of the stuff i see in the openoffice 'user experience' makes a lot more sense I'm afraid that the GUI is the way forward, while computers can talk to other computers and people who understand computers without using imagery, the rest of the world need their icons. But that is only the beginning, a gui can actually do so much more than any CLI, which would probably just get immensely complicated and require some serious learning, and funilly enough RTFM doesn't bake bread quite as well as an intiutive interface. You probably know that we 'have' to work with a GUI here, but if we're only making your UI functional because we 'have to' and resign ourselves to a fate of half adequate, then we're always going to lose users like the OP to graceful and aesthetic interfaces. Which are time and time again in this modern age appearing, granted there are some ugly interfaces, but commercial and FOS software have some great interfaces that are basically just pickup and play. I like F-Spot from the GNOME guys as a good example, while more closer to home we are currently getting our asses handed to us by the MS Office guys, (at least in the obvious ways, i personally believe that there are many advantages to our UI but it's not nearly as 'intiuitive as what MS are currently putting out there'. Some people would like to see OOo make serious headway on MSO, in order to really pull out the big guns this project should get it's act together on the UI front. hopefully the User eXperience project at ux.openoffice.org is a good starting point -- Chris Monahan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
