No more right click terminal

Nicolas Mailhot Nicolas.Mailhot at laPoste.net
Fri Jul 22 15:52:56 UTC 2005


Le vendredi 22 juillet 2005 à 11:23 -0400, Colin Walters a écrit :

> Going back to the original point of this thread, not having the terminal
> in the right-click menu is not going to help these people at all if they
> need some computer-savvy friend to introduce them and start writing
> things for them.  Having it there by default is not going to magically
> endow knowledge of data structures, scripting languages, variables, etc.

But the terminal menu entry will help the computer-savvy friend when he
needs to describe over the telephone how to do something. It will help
the people that formalise this kind of advice in howtos. It will help
those of us who mail small scripts to friends because that's easier than
take them through a computer 101 course (not taking into account that
because we are friends or family we are supposed to take abuse pupils
would never dare vent at a paid teacher). Because the terminal can do
all the advanced things you write about does not mean people need to
master all of them to use it (indeed if one had to have this level of
knowledge use a tool most office suite users would never be allowed to
touch them). The terminal is the power user swiss knife but it's also
the computer illiterate crutch (not that being a tool power users like
should be ground for eradiction)

Removing a facility to promote another (that is not even fully existing
yet) has never been a graceful or constructive way to change things.
That it forces rewriting of documentation should be a red light. Writing
technical documentation, like explaining something you think you
understand to total strangers, is a pretty good way to find out what's
really simple clear and useful and what isn't.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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