Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 15:30:17 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I bought your system and am not so happy! Message-ID: <20020306143017.GA4280@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <15493.55978.64561.743039@guru.mired.org> References: <20724537@toto.iv> <15493.55978.64561.743039@guru.mired.org>
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On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:00:26AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> types: > > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:37:54AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > Subscribe to the libh list. That's where the UI that's going to be the > > > heart of the new installer is being worked on. Please. Most of your > > > ideas are very much on target, and having a good UI person at least > > > reviewing the code would certainly help. > > There is an easy "test" of a good UI. > > If it in any way, shape, size or form resembles the GNU "info" navigation > > model it should be mercilessly put to death by the sword. > > So *that's* why we never see complaints from you about web > browsers. You think the web should have been mercilessly put to death > by the sword. > > Info has a strange history. It was originally an online hypertext help > system for a bunch of editor macros for teco. > Teco, teco. Teco-freaks were the perl-freaks of their day. I am sure one of the ones I came across swore you could write a whole O/S in teco if you tried hard enough. But then I worked once for a company that made information systems for airports, and was informed by one of the old-timers that they used to write all their apps in APL. Then their is the book showing how to implement an RDBMS in awk. And I even wrote a monitoring system for AFTN in Pascal running under AOS/VS on a DG something or other. I complain endlessly about browsers, I hate them all, except Opera, and Opera doesn't work properly. However "info" is the spawn of the devil. In the future the attempted assassination of man pages will be referred to as "Stallman's Last Stand". -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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