On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 19:53 +0000, Brett Parker wrote:
I like my GUI without an evil desktop - lots of frames, lots of terminals, lots of tabs. Hmmm. tasty.
http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/
Hmmmm tiled window manager, wasn't Windows 1.0 like that...are you saying that Billy G had it right on the first shot ?
Seriously though I can see how that would work out pretty well for some tasks like system administration or perhaps development..but I can't see it being a great environment for a non technical user performing general tasks, how are they supposed to know how to launch anything ?
Yes - and if you've ever worked in Tech Support, you tend to wish it had never bloody happened!
Actually I worked for many years in Tech support (at everything from first-line "No that's not a coffee holder" to supporting other IT professionals) and I have never thought that someone shouldn't be allowed access to a computer (excluding a few of the IT professionals)
Of course there are stubborn, incompetent, impatient, frustrated and simply confused users. Sometimes you encounter a user who is a combination of all five. Sometimes they make life very hard for those trying to support them. But I have never ever thought that the solution would be to raise the entry level high enough that the technically less able never get involved.
Just have a good swear about them once you have closed the call, works for me every time :-)