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[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 00:34 -0400, Dimi Paun wrote:
> 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. 

My name is seth vidal. I was not upset by spatial nautilus.

pleased to meet you.

-sv