Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/06/04/01:20:37.2
On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Sorry if i am missing something, but I thought that the consumer base is
> > *the* reliable evidence of the ultimate quality of the product int he
> > long run.
>
> Evidently, it isn't, not in our age, anyway. It looks like consumers
> don't mind bying a product that crashes several times a day...
Well I certainly wouldn't mind buying a product that crashes several times
a day if it's learning curve is less steep.
>
> > And please note that for the user the "quality" of a product does not mean
> > the technical quality, but how user friendly it is.
>
> That's an interesting notion of quality. User-friendliness is one of
> the factors, but it surely isn't the only one, nor is it the most
> important one.
But you must admit that it plays a *major* role...fre ex just see why many
people prefer using RHGDB instead of GDB :(
> > Windoze is so popular because it is
> > much more user friendly than linux and all it's GUI's.....
>
> X windows is not less user-friendly than MS-Windows.
Actually it should be the Window manager that decides this. As it is the
Window Manager that decides the "feel" of the windows etc...
> > They expect that the secretary would prefer a technically superior linux
> > over windoze and then they expect her to do her word processing in ..VI !
>
> I don't know who expects that from secretaries. There are true word
> processors for Linux (StarOffice, for one).
That is indeed a Good thing and I use it almost exsclusively.
> Btw, I don't know when did you last work in a large corporation, but
> where I work, secretaries run to your truly asking to solve problems
> with Word. So much for user-friendliness...
Well I don't think that they bother to have a look at the
extensive documentation..the same way that many people (including me
sometimes) don't bother reading the DJGPP FAQ first before posting ;-)
It's just much easier and faster for them to ask a guru about thier
problem than searching through the doc's...and this does not reflect about
the user friendliness in a major way.
> > Just see where GNOME got it's feel...yes from windoze 95.
>
> Look and feel do not have to contradict stability and quality.
Yes...but it shows that windoze GUI is indeed user friendly if GNOME too
borrows on it...
> > for example I would prefer A "inferiror" product with a GUI based debugger
> > than a "awesome?" one with a *!*!! command line based debugger...
>
> Me too, but what's your point? Both Windows and Linux satisfy this
> requirement.
No I was commenting about the sad lack (I may be wrong here) of a IDE
based debugger for GDB...I commented on this in another post...
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