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Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 11:42:41AM -0000, Bob Dove wrote:
switching itself on again as does the auto-update routine. The desktop and pointy-clicky is fine, a computer that runs at the whim of BG isn't - hence my interest in Linux. However, having to type code on a command line to open OOo leaves me cold. Are you sure all this typing is not just to keep the Grockles in awe?
typing the magical incantation "oowriter" leaves you cold?! Interesting...
If I had icons for all the things I occasionally want to do there wouldn't be space for everything. That's why we invented alphabets, to enable us to create unique names with a small number of unique systems. With these few simple icons (called letters) I can write the name of just about anything I want to call, if there was only an icon for it firstly I'd be lost in millions of icons and secondly I'd have no hope of guessing what they all meant.
*YAWN* - and that's why menus where invented, oh, and things to group icons, often called "folder" - different people - different options. For me, hitting F3 and typing a command is much easier that navigating a menu, but if I really want something and I don't know what it's called, there's a menu on F12. Menus can make life a lot simpler, if they're well designed, and you're new to $program, like maybe you've only just installed it, and it's a database app... In debian you'd go to the menu - -> Debian -> Apps -> Databases and glance through to see what's there.
Hmmm. - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk