Re: Win vs. UNIX usability (Was: Re: gnome-terminal idea)

[David Jeske <jeske home chat net>]

On Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 03:45:48PM +0200, yiyus wrote:
> >But now I think we're getting off GNOME and into some larger
> problems. I
> >think we need to get back on the track of thinking about what GNOME
> can
> >do to alleviate some of the headaches in giving Linux to your
> >grandmother. Perhaps a gnome-installer would be a good thing to see
> come
> >out of this discussion.
> >
> >-Steve
> 
> 
> BTW: isn't there anything similar to the Linux Usability Project. I am
> working in an installation program for Linux, you are talking about an
> apps installer, the control center and LinuxConf. Shouldn't there be
> some place to work together on all this things?

It's still my personal feeling that the easiest to use system I've
seen with respect to app installation and deinstallation is nextstep,
and it's this way because installation is existance. The installation
tool is 'copying' and the deinstallation tool is 'deleting' and it
works great. It works this way because they use an encapsulation
concept called 'app-wrappers', and it was done only for GUI apps on
nextstep. (legacy command line stuff still used a traditional
installer)


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