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[Dimi Paun]

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 00:24 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>   Its pretty brave of Gnome to actually say mainstream users of their
> desktop do not need quick access to a terminal to get typical
> workloads done... but I can't disagree with the goal. Mainstream
> office and home users of a modern computer desktop environment should
> not need to use the terminal so oftern that the terminal should be in
> the main desktop menu.

This is a nice way to put it. We're nowhere close to "not require access
to the terminal", and I can't possibly see how this helps anyone.

Like it or not, but by and large the Linux audience is fairly technical,
and they do use a terminal. Why make it harder for most of the users?

This is the sort of 'brave' move that reminds me (at a much smaller
scale, I agree) to the spatial nautilus business. I haven't met a single
person that wasn't upset by that change. And that was shoved down
people's throats rather unceremoniously. 

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Dimi Paun <dimi at lattica.com>
Lattica, Inc.