Re: Idiot-proofing gnome

[Daniel Kasak <dkasak nusconsulting com au>]

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 16:53 +1030, Karl Goetz wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 02:19 +0100, Jancio Wodnik wrote:
> > Daniel Kasak pisze:
> > > Greetings.
> > >
> > > I often get called to PCs that have 20 or so instances of Evolution,
> > > Firefox & internal applications running. People clearly don't understand
> > > the difference between an application launcher, and an application's
> > > icon in the taskbar.
> 
> Then they should be taught the difference.

Yeah. Want to come and teach them? Our sales team is *completely*
computer illiterate, and also practically incapable of learning. What's
more, they only last for 3 or 4 weeks, and then move on and another
comes to replace them. Anyway, I have tried to teach them, seriously.
But everything has a limit, and my patience is no exception.

> I like having the option to launch multiple applications, eg:
> 	web browser/s
> 	text editor/s
> 	terminals

Yes. The *option*. I was suggesting making this an option. I believe the
'itask' launcher / taskbar in Enlightenment-0.17 has an option like this
per launcher ... ie you can tell the launcher to either behave as a
normal launcher and just keep on launching apps, or to switch into 'task
manager' mode after the 1st instance is launched.

The thing is that this is clearly what a large number of computer
illiterate people are expecting ... nay INSISTING on.

I'm not saying this should be the only behaviour, but it would be nice
as an option.

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Daniel Kasak
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