On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!': >Think of secretaries who aren't interested in computers but need to use > them. Think of musicians who want to use computers for composing without > really under them. Think of any person who just uses computers without > actually knowing what a file or a directory is. Computers aren't for > geeks only.
Computers are tools, and thus, have some required knowledge to use them. If you don't know what a file or (directory/folder) is, you should stay away from them -- you might hurt yourself. You don't use power tools or even cars without training for the same reason. >> Using those search engines is like reinventing the wheel or programing >> embedded devices with java... ;) > >Or like inventing the next generation wheel. Think of people using a >microwave for heating up food. They know they can do that. They don't > need to know that only water, fat and sugar actually heat up in a > microwave as long as they stick to food. If they start to experiment > with other things ... well, they have to understand how microwaves work. I don't expect my users to be able to write a filesystem in C, design an IC, or understand the OSI 7 layer model. I do expect them to be able to use files and folders (a.k.a. directories). Especially since most office workers, and quite a few non-office workers use files and folders to mange their paperwork every day. I'm sure DSE will be a feature many users will like and probably even become dependent on. It's NOT the "next generation wheel", it's not even something I'll use, but it has it's place. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/
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