From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Toomim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date) Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 20:28:18 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <7263-Sat20Apr2002145929+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <3CC1BEB9.9020104@cs.berkeley.edu> <87elhap2r4.fsf@lgh163a.kemisten.nu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019359827 28229 127.0.0.1 (21 Apr 2002 03:30:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 03:30:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , link@pobox.com, bradym@balestra.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16z83X-0007LC-00 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 05:30:27 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16z83Z-0000LA-00 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 05:30:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16z83L-00078Z-00; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 23:30:15 -0400 Original-Received: from front1.mail.megapathdsl.net ([66.80.60.31]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16z81O-000719-00 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 23:28:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [216.36.77.18] (HELO cheeseskin) by front1.mail.megapathdsl.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.8) with ESMTP id 25267146; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 20:22:49 -0700 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=cs.berkeley.edu ident=toomim) by cheeseskin with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16z81T-00028F-00; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 20:28:19 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020412 Debian/0.9.9-6 X-Accept-Language: en Original-To: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2901 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2901 Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > > Seriously, changing the terminology just to help new users is to funny, > if someone wants to learn about the terminology then they should read the > dictionary (it actually exists to be read). Just because someone doesn't > understand what `esophagus' means, doesn't mean that the word should be > changed to something that is more suitable to new people that are interested > in biology. > There's a thing called "user-centered design". In modern times, it is generally accepted to be good.