On 2/23/07, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote: > It's curious that someone who can write Python fears the learning of the > command line.
Personally, I *love* the command line. I'd rather have a command-line tool available than a GUI tool, because you can script a command-line tool. But I've done about five years of tech support work. And what I learned in that time is that average users are scared of the command line. It's intimidating. If something requires the command line, they simply *will not* use it. Not all of them -- but the vast majority. No, that's not ideal. It would be great if people weren't scared of learning the power of the command line. But it's reality. I want to help people get away from the shackles of proprietary software. I see a *lot* of people stuck with tools like MS Publisher, when they could be using something better. I want to help them. But that means giving them a nice GUIfied interface to things, because the simple reality is that they just aren't going to use anything command-line oriented. They're scared of it, or else they're simply too busy with their "real job" (medicine, teaching, whatever) to learn it. I don't want them to be stuck using proprietary stuff simply because they're doctors or teachers, rather than computer programmers. That's what distros like Ubuntu are all about, and that's also the main goal I'm focusing on as I contribute code to various projects such as Scribus. Thus, my attempt to wrap the booklet-making process into a simple script. I had several friends who were trying to produce booklets ask about whether Scribus can do it. I started researching it, and discovered that it's possible, but the process is too complicated for them to follow. I could do it, but they can't. So I'm trying to make it possible for people like them. -- Robin Munn Robin.Munn at gmail.com GPG key 0x4543D577
