Am 27. Aug, 2000 schwäzte linux@integertech.com so:

> All of us know that 'end-users'(remember, your barber or your mom):

Uh, what's a barber? ;-)

> a) never want to leave the mouse.

It's so much fun to give them 3 buttons :).

> b) want wizards to do everything for them.
> c) don't want to read documentation for 2 hours to find out how to change
> something. (I should amend that to "don't want to read documentation even
> to save their own lives.")
> d) want to use a computer for a specific task (email, web, MP3s) and don't
> _want_ to know how or why the computer does what it does.

They don't even want to find out what programs to use, so the window
managers should come with icons that have titles like "play mp3s", "write
a document", "web browser", "open a beer", "read email". These can then
link to whatever default app does the described. If there isn't an app
that does whatever, open Xemacs. If that doesn't do it, they'll be far too
confused to find out ;-).

ciao,

der.hans
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