Re: ELF loading

Herbert Kleebauer <klee@xxxxxxxxx> écrivait news:46D198E3.D80EAFC5
@unibwm.de:

The only justification for a graphical desktop is the ability to
have many command windows displayed simultaneously. If you
communicate with a human, do you point on graphical pictograms
or do you speak (write) to him. Why don't you use the same method
when communicating with a piece of software?

Communicating with words (Command-Lines) implies a *Language*.
A user does not have to _learn_ any Language. Mind you, when
facing the Linux password bug, i had to re-boot in "rescue
Mode", first. Do you want a user to even *know* what a "rescue
mod" is, and how to access this?! No. this is not his job. Then,
after the "rescue mode", i had to type in, a "bash" Command.
How do you want a *user* to know what command to type in?!
Well, fact is that i knew what to type in. Then, i had... to
exit from there. How do you want a user to know how to do that?!
Your question is so absurd that i can't believe it. A user does
not even have to *know* that "bash" _exists_. This is utterly
unacceptable to have to use it.

What would have been acceptable, when facing the bug, would have
been a Dialog, with a title saying: "Change PassWord:", an Edit-
control, and the required "Abort" and "OK" buttons. Period. There
is absolutely nothing intelligent with knowing the tips&tricks,
which are nothing but reflects of the programmers failure.

OK, i cannot shout at volunteers free works, but, saying that
the actual mess is "intelligent" is the reverse of truth.


Betov.

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