On Sunday 06 December 2009 13:57:20 Evelyn Yoder wrote: > huh. interesting. But I think it's too bad that users (non-technical and > otherwise) need so much hand-holding when it come to software. > > With a DVD player (or a car or house), a user will press the button or flip > a switch to learn what a thing does. With software, and tools like > MediaWiki, there is this underlying fear of "breaking it", so a user won't > play in the sandbox. It's too bad. > Definitely not! The only way you get that kind of functionality is by tying it down, hard-coded, until it sort-of works and doesn't actually do what anyone wants. Dumbing down is not what we want.
Life is too short to make every mistake yourself. As long as lists like these provide help to solve problems, there really is no issue. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
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