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Please end this thread now.  People are arguing in circles and you know
what, no minds are going to be changed.  I think anyone who cared has
gotten their say and it has all become noise after that.  Please refrain
from posting to this thread.  If you really want to continue this take
it off list.

On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 23:57 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le samedi 16 juillet 2005 à 11:12 -0400, Colin Walters a écrit :
> > On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 03:13 -0400, Dimi Paun wrote:
> > 
> > > and removing a generally useful feature way before its time is not
> > > helpful.
> > 
> > The terminal is still available.  From half of the responses on this
> > thread you'd think it'd been removed entirely.
> 
> It's been moved in menu-land.
> I'd say at least 80% of terminal uses by non-tech users is to avoid
> dealing with menu-land shifting sands, its continual icon remapping and
> menu entry renaming.
> 
> If I need evo I know I can open a term and type evolution. This had been
> true for several years. Can you say the same about evo gui access ?
> 
> It's all well and good to worry about the average user but I'm ready to
> bet you anything any given average user study will find the average user
> cares more about finding his stuff the same way in the same place than
> about the "gui-correctness" of the access method. You can verify it any
> day by taking over a windows user desktop and reordering the menu and
> root window. Users don't care if it's a mess as long as it's the mess
> they're used to.
> 
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