Le vendredi 22 juillet 2005 à 11:23 -0400, Colin Walters a écrit : > Going back to the original point of this thread, not having the terminal > in the right-click menu is not going to help these people at all if they > need some computer-savvy friend to introduce them and start writing > things for them. Having it there by default is not going to magically > endow knowledge of data structures, scripting languages, variables, etc. But the terminal menu entry will help the computer-savvy friend when he needs to describe over the telephone how to do something. It will help the people that formalise this kind of advice in howtos. It will help those of us who mail small scripts to friends because that's easier than take them through a computer 101 course (not taking into account that because we are friends or family we are supposed to take abuse pupils would never dare vent at a paid teacher). Because the terminal can do all the advanced things you write about does not mean people need to master all of them to use it (indeed if one had to have this level of knowledge use a tool most office suite users would never be allowed to touch them). The terminal is the power user swiss knife but it's also the computer illiterate crutch (not that being a tool power users like should be ground for eradiction) Removing a facility to promote another (that is not even fully existing yet) has never been a graceful or constructive way to change things. That it forces rewriting of documentation should be a red light. Writing technical documentation, like explaining something you think you understand to total strangers, is a pretty good way to find out what's really simple clear and useful and what isn't. -- Nicolas Mailhot
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