On Tue, 7 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I agree that dselect has some problems for users who are new to it. I > too have seen people who where experienced with unix and who were > mystified by dselect at first.
In concept, dselect is great. It's an attempt to create a user interface that's not based on the window/pulldown menu interface that (I believe) is highly overrated. It's nice because for whatever use a window system has, it's not the only way to do things. I do not believe that it is "gui (windows) vs. command line." Those are only two ways. dselect is different and I like that. The problem with dselect, I think, is that the user quickly gets lost in the context. Think of using a computer program as watching a movie: there's a certain sequence to it and it will make sense. It's like dselect skips a sequence somewhere, gets too much into its own terminology too quickly, and the user's lost. Bottom line is I think dselect's a good thing but something has to be changed. Maybe dselect doesn't go far _enough_ in it's direction, I don't know. But Debian can be difficult to install and to do package maintenance, and that has to change. Michael Stutz | DESIGN SCIENCE LABS http://dsl.org/m | Hypermedia, Internet, Linux/GNU bumper stickers,indie rock,rants | Linux: http://dsl.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
