Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 7/11/05, Dimi Paun <dimi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Why? Out of the entire GNOME menu, that was the most useful feature > > by an order of magnitude (for me). > (for you) sums it up. Perhaps... just perhaps... you aren't inside > the target audience that Gnome is designing for. [...] [...] > Its pretty brave of Gnome to actually say mainstream users of their > desktop do not need quick access to a terminal to get typical > workloads done... but I can't disagree with the goal. Mainstream > office and home users of a modern computer desktop environment should > not need to use the terminal so oftern that the terminal should be in > the main desktop menu. Right. And changing the desktop background is a regular operation, /absolutely requiring/ an entry there. Oh, come on. Sure, GUIs /can/ be used in a just-point&drool way, but the commands are what makes *ix powerful. [Yes, for me X is just an easy way to have half a dozen ttys open together with xemacs.] -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
