From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Reorganizing guix package commands
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 17:24:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fuuh39kz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160419051701.GA10275@jocasta.intra> (John Darrington's message of "Tue, 19 Apr 2016 07:17:02 +0200")
John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:
> While we're thinking about user interfaces, I believe a more abstract approach
> would be better at this stage: What types of person are going to be
> interacting with Guix? Developers? Users? Curious Bystanders? Some other
> category of person? --- Each of those are probably going to have a core set
> of commands which they use regualarly, a few which they use occasionally and
> some never. Identifying those sets (which may intersect) is the first step
> to designing a good user interface. That would help for both CLI and GUI.
I and others tried to start each of the “Invoking” sections with a
sentence clarifying the intended audience of the command.
Probably we should try to reflect it more in the manual’s structure, so
it’s not clear to me exactly how.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-19 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-18 8:57 Reorganizing guix package commands Alex Kost
2016-04-18 16:10 ` John Darrington
2016-04-19 8:01 ` Alex Kost
2016-04-18 17:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-04-18 21:50 ` myglc2
2016-04-19 5:17 ` John Darrington
2016-04-19 12:57 ` myglc2
2016-04-19 13:03 ` Thompson, David
2016-04-19 13:35 ` John Darrington
2016-04-19 13:51 ` myglc2
2016-04-19 15:24 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-04-19 10:47 ` Alex Kost
2016-04-19 10:58 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-04-19 12:45 ` myglc2
2016-04-19 7:52 ` Alex Kost
2016-04-19 9:17 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2016-04-19 10:37 ` Alex Kost
2016-04-19 9:23 ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-04-19 10:16 ` Alex Kost
2016-04-19 14:39 ` John Darrington
2016-04-19 13:00 ` myglc2
2016-04-19 13:43 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-04-19 14:29 ` myglc2
2016-04-19 13:55 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-04-19 15:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-04-19 19:56 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-04-20 3:45 ` myglc2
2016-04-20 5:34 ` John Darrington
2016-04-20 8:52 ` Alex Kost
2016-04-20 17:05 ` myglc2
2016-04-20 8:29 ` Alex Kost
2016-04-20 9:46 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2016-04-20 21:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-04-21 12:34 ` myglc2
2016-04-21 5:20 ` John Darrington
2016-04-20 9:29 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2016-04-21 2:49 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-04-21 7:10 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2016-04-18 21:13 ` Hartmut Goebel
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