Re: Why cluehunting ?

["Dan \"Effugas\" Kaminsky" <effugas best com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Preben Randhol <randhol@dusken4.samfundet.ntnu.no>
To: Dan "Effugas" Kaminsky <effugas@BEST.COM>
Cc: gnome-gui-list@gnome.org <gnome-gui-list@gnome.org>
Date: Wednesday, August 19, 1998 6:08 AM
Subject: Re: Why cluehunting ?


>* "Dan \"Effugas\" Kaminsky" <effugas@best.com
>
>| Because users are lazy.  What would you do without tab-complete?
>
>To clarify : I like the tab function in bash, but I don't like
>autocomplete. Don't like computers that tries to outsmart me and fails
>horribly:)


Read the proposal...I'm not absolutely sure autocomplete is good ANYWHERE...

>[snip]
>|
>| That COULD work.
>
>yes perhaps it will. But at any rate it needs a lot of research, coding,
>testing etc. It is not possible to do this over night. I therefore
>encourage you to work on the idea. Try to get coders with you and make
>something that can be demonstrated. If it is a Good Thing we can
>include it in a later version of the Style Guide.


Working on that.  Trying to get a completed design first.

>I think we should look at the current situation and make a styleguide
>out of what we have and what can be done very easily/quickly. We
>shouldn't base the styleguide on vaporeware that might work sometime
>in the future.


No, we shouldn't.  Bowie and Bill are handling the present tense on our
guide, I'm working on next-gen, style-guide-after-this-one possibilities.

>It is always fine that people are creative etc, but I really think
>that we need to get a foundation ready now which can be worked on and
>improved on with time.