[Gllug] On Linux desktops...

[Richard Cottrill]

Pardon me for dragging this discussion backwards a bit...

-----Original Message-----
From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
Of David Damerell
>looks like. So, Pine has a better GUI than vi, for example, because it's a
>lot easier to get into initially,

Which is meaningless to the experienced user.

>the shortcuts are easily available,

Which, if it can't be suppressed, is actively harmful to the
experienced user, who loses 2 lines of screen real estate to stuff
they already know.

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This is the sort of attitude that Nielsen's pointing to. This doesn't make
it a 'bad' opinion; it's just not conducive to making good (graphical) user
interfaces. User interfaces should have all sorts of nifty things in them.
Experts should be able to customise, new users should not be lost. The whole
process should be made as intuitive as possible.

There's lots more about this sort of thing. Nielsen's site and there's a
list of a couple of things to aim for. They're mostly debatable but they
make a starting point.

Richard


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