Re: Why cluehunting ?

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

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Vogt <tom@lemuria.org>
To: gnome-gui-list@gnome.org <gnome-gui-list@gnome.org>
Date: Thursday, August 20, 1998 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: Why cluehunting ?


>Dan Effugas Kaminsky <effugas@best.com> wrote:
>> Maybe a green underline under a word would signify the computer thinks it
>> can do better?
>
>eyk! that's one of the worst ever "features" of word - and that means it's
>really worse. see, I DON'T want the computer tell me "hey dumbass, you
wrote
>this wrong" unless I ASK for it's opinion.
>
>and new users WILL get confused. wanna bet?


Hang on, Tom.

There's a BIG difference between "grammar is bad" and "a green underline is
bad".  HUGE HUGE HUGE.  Functionality good or bad, I know TONS of people who
SWEAR by the grammar, but you don't, fine.  Is the interface the best
possible?  It's close.

Why is it a bad thing for the computer to announce, "By the way, I can help
you expand this" in a completely non instrusive manner?