On Wed, 14 May 2014 08:58:33 +0300 "Ville M. Vainio" <vivai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Git is sometimes used to maintain e.g. design assets and > documentation. > > I guess non-technical people will learn to use git when it's > mandatory part of their work. :-) My interest / surprise is that software-carpentry.org teaches git as one of their core skills, in fact their bootcamp recipe is to install gitbash for windows both for git and bash (sed / tr / sort / wc / etc. etc. I assume). Some students here might get to that this summer, but I'm curious about getting it going locally, dreaming of a time when no one sends me Excel spreadsheets with a note "the selected ones are colored red" :-) Cheers -Terry > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 5:52 PM, 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor < > leo-editor@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 May 2014 20:13:17 -0700 (PDT) > > Richard Cranium <completea55h...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Like all the non-technical people that managed to learn git? > > > > I don't quite understand your comment, and I'm considering trying to > > teach non-technical people git, so I'm curious. Is there a context > > where you see a lot of non-technical people using git? Via > > git-hub, or some other UI? Or is it not as hard as it seems if > > it's explained right? > > > > Thanks, Terry > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "leo-editor" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > > send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
