I have to dissagree. I hate writing GUIs, I hate usability and HCI experts telling me oh doing it this way or that way. I often think that a usability expert is someone that couldn't use a fecking toothpick. But the real reason for all this hate is ... that they are fecking right. As the title of a major usability text professes, the inmates (ie geeks and engineers like us) are running the asylum. Come on, many on this list are programmers and how many of you really enjoy thinking about how your user is going to interact with your program vs how parts of your program is going to talk that cool new hardware or use that new cunning technique you've thought up to crack some other technical problem. The truth is that most programmers (except the very strange ones that derive pleasure out of QA) do not like GUIs and this is most obvious in the programmers OS of choice.
Charles
On Saturday 03 April 2004 16:07, IanBell wrote:
On Saturday 03 April 2004 15:05, Graham Trott wrote:
A cautionary tale for anyone producing end-user software. Also an amusing and informative read.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html
-- GT
I have a great personal dislike of articles like this. Instead of bleating, the writer should have had a constructive dialogue with the authors of CUPS. Try doing that with Windows!
Ian
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