Re: Just an interesting idea...

["Iain" <tigermilk btinternet com>]

> A helper like the Micro$oft Assistant? Excuse a newbie to the
> gnome-dev-world, but this sounds like a good way to make a lot of people
> who has fled to Linux (from windoze) go away again. That little paperclip
> is known as the "annoying fucker" amongst the people I know...

Actually, newbies like it a lot.
My mother (who is totally computer illiterate) loves it,
because it gives her a face to shout at when something
goes wrong. Also, if they are done right (ie, not popping up at random times
to tell you that you're typing a letter), they can be very helpful.