On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 10:57:03PM +0930, Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 14:39 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> Also a GUI tends to be a moving target, thereby making
> what documentation there is out of date.
A good GUI shouldn't need documentation, though; it should explain
itself intuitively, and provide some hints for the more difficult bits.
I have an
ex-student who made a claim like this recently. His company
produces a product that needs no documentation. It is "intuitively
obvious" he says.
Balderdash. I am still waiting for the program that needs no
documentation. I think I will die first. Linux Journal put me on to
search tools recently. I am frustrated that kfind for example has no man
page, and I would still like to know how you search jpegs using it. That
is certainly not obvious to me and that annoys me.
A GUI does make it easier to set either/or options (won't let you do
both), and provide other multiple choice options. But some are just
woeful, take Evolution's "automatically synchronise remote mail locally"
option. What does that mean? The manual doesn't explain. I'd have to
do a series of tests to work out if that means keep messages available
locally and remotely, copy missing messages or delete local copy of a
remote message that was deleted by something else, and so on. I have
another mailer on Windows, The Bat!, with a really weird and hazardous
sounding option that I've never ticked because I can't find an
explanation: "purge unread messages". Why would I want to lose a
message I haven't read yet?
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