On Thursday 29 May 2003 09:32, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > DA>> Do people really need WYSIWYG? I think the majority does not. At > > Well, yes they do. At least if you don't take paternalist approach of "I > know better than people themselves what the people need". The reality > check shows that users an masse prefer WYSIWYG tools for casual > word-processing (as opposed to book-making) to non-WYSIWYG ones.
I didn't ask what they preferred. A reality check also shows the great mjority of users still prefer mswindows over any other OS and DE, that does not mean that's the best solution for them. If we depended on users' own existing opinions to determine what they need, noone would be talking about linux on the desktop. If you look not at the users themselves (ie ignore their existing personal habits) but at what they want to with their program, don't you think WYSIWYM would fit much better in many cases? -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key
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