Like all the non-technical people that managed to learn git? On Saturday, May 3, 2014 10:15:17 PM UTC-5, duf...@gmail.com wrote: > > I am a long-time lurker on this newsgroup, and I have noticed that in the > last few months there have been significant improvements to Leo, in the > hopes of making it more accessible to the non-technical crowd. It was > certainly a move in the right direction but, alas, I think it was not > enough. The point of my argument is that Leo is still too > technically-oriented, and this alienates so many potential users. You just > have to read the posts on this newsgroup (as I have been doing for a long > time), to realize that people with little or no programming experience are > bound to find major difficulties in using Leo, from the very beginning. > Just trying to configure the simplest (UI-related) settings is a major > challenge. > This issue was already raised in the past, but is yet to be solved. > > Why can't we (non-technical people) be relieved with having to tinker with > the internal workings of Leo? Come to think of it, the overwhelming > majority of modern programs are totally GUI-based, so that the settings can > be easily changed via menus. Why can't we have this in Leo too, instead of > having to learn technical jargon and manually modify settings files? I > really don't get it. > > Please, consider doing something radical about it (e.g. refurbishing the > default menus with all the main commands and settings, at least), or > realistically Leo might be bound for extinction. > > All the best, > > Duf >
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