From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GTK file selector
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:56:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d5jxsgib.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17313.37186.344268.487103@parhasard.net> (Aidan Kehoe's message of "Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:52:34 +0100")
> > What an irony that the goal of Gnome developers was to design an easy-to-use
> > file dialog, and now no one can use it without hints acquired from others.
>
> It’s an irony if you ignore that their goal was to design a dialog that was
> easy to use for naive users.
I doubt very much that removing useful features to make a simplistic UI
will persuade naive users to use the Gnome environment. So I still
don't understand what is the target audience of Gnome developers.
> In 2005, naive users do not use any form of emacs, in general,
By analogy with GTK2 dialog windows, removing features from Emacs
to make it similar to Notepad will make naive users happy :-)
> and even the experts are abandoning it today.
Why do they abandon it? And what do they prefer instead?
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-16 7:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-14 9:27 GTK file selector Jérôme Marant
2005-12-14 14:06 ` Aidan Kehoe
2005-12-14 14:38 ` Jérôme Marant
2005-12-14 19:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-14 20:33 ` Jérôme Marant
2005-12-14 20:00 ` Jan Djärv
2005-12-16 20:10 ` Jérôme Marant
2005-12-16 20:16 ` Jan Djärv
2005-12-16 20:28 ` Jérôme Marant
2005-12-16 22:00 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2005-12-14 15:25 ` Mario Domenech Goulart
2005-12-14 20:30 ` Jérôme Marant
2005-12-14 15:28 ` Frank Schmitt
2005-12-15 9:00 ` Stephen Berman
2005-12-16 1:52 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-15 12:59 ` Juri Linkov
2005-12-15 15:52 ` Aidan Kehoe
2005-12-16 7:56 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2005-12-16 11:38 ` Aidan Kehoe
2005-12-16 12:49 ` Juri Linkov
2005-12-16 15:40 ` Romain Francoise
2005-12-17 10:44 ` Kaloian Doganov
2005-12-17 15:16 ` Romain Francoise
2005-12-16 16:27 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-12-16 20:54 ` Chong Yidong
2005-12-16 20:08 ` Nick Roberts
2005-12-16 22:23 ` David Kastrup
2005-12-16 23:23 ` Jérôme Marant
2005-12-16 23:38 ` David Kastrup
2005-12-17 13:05 ` Jérôme Marant
2005-12-17 15:22 ` David Kastrup
2005-12-17 22:21 ` Aidan Kehoe
2005-12-18 0:38 ` David Kastrup
2005-12-18 11:07 ` Aidan Kehoe
2005-12-18 12:56 ` Jérôme Marant
2005-12-18 13:40 ` David Kastrup
2005-12-18 17:37 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2005-12-18 17:57 ` David Kastrup
2005-12-18 20:37 ` Xavier Maillard
2005-12-18 22:36 ` Miles Bader
2005-12-18 23:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-19 14:07 ` Xavier Maillard
2005-12-19 1:41 ` Tom Tromey
2005-12-19 2:26 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2005-12-19 5:33 ` Tom Tromey
2005-12-18 22:33 ` Miles Bader
2005-12-17 15:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-17 22:02 ` Aidan Kehoe
2005-12-18 20:59 ` Juri Linkov
2005-12-22 15:26 ` Lőrentey Károly
2005-12-17 16:22 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2005-12-18 5:24 ` Nick Roberts
2005-12-18 10:25 ` Aidan Kehoe
2005-12-18 12:23 ` David Kastrup
2005-12-18 12:47 ` Aidan Kehoe
2005-12-18 12:57 ` David Kastrup
2005-12-18 12:14 ` David Kastrup
2005-12-18 14:47 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2005-12-18 15:07 ` David Kastrup
2005-12-18 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-19 4:38 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-17 16:52 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-12-16 20:13 ` Jan Djärv
2005-12-17 10:57 ` Juri Linkov
2005-12-18 17:02 ` Jan D.
2005-12-19 4:40 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-19 23:18 ` Jan D.
2005-12-20 0:36 ` Jan D.
2005-12-20 16:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-20 19:21 ` Jan D.
2005-12-21 5:30 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-22 9:27 ` Jan D.
2005-12-22 22:20 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-23 0:09 ` David Kastrup
2005-12-23 11:38 ` Jan D.
2005-12-23 18:09 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-24 20:29 ` Jan D.
2005-12-25 19:06 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-27 10:47 ` Jan D.
2005-12-27 13:31 ` Jan D.
2005-12-27 16:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-28 10:50 ` Jan D.
2005-12-20 5:32 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-20 6:35 ` Jan D.
2005-12-21 2:58 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-19 23:45 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-17 13:06 ` Jérôme Marant
2005-12-14 16:18 ` Reiner Steib
2005-12-14 21:23 ` Jérôme Marant
2005-12-14 16:20 ` Emfox Zhou
2005-12-15 2:08 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-16 20:05 ` Jérôme Marant
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-12-16 18:53 Pierre-Charles David
2005-12-17 10:57 ` Juri Linkov
2005-12-18 17:02 ` Jan D.
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