Linux Project (RE: Linux vs. Windows and why win is winning!)
Monty Harder
lists at kc.rr.com
Sun Jul 29 21:20:28 CDT 2001
7/29/01 1:04:54 AM, Edgar Allen <era at sky.net> wrote:
>My Redhat 7.0 has 3140 commands available at the command line.
>
>If each pulldown has 5, 6, or 7 elements then the menues must go
>to file levels. If you want some things to end before the fifth level
>then those will be in addition to the cascading entries.
I think you can get by with more than 7 elements per pulldown. I just want to avoid what most Win
users see in
Start|Programs, which is every single software publisher's name, in addition to the categories of
MS stuff. I've seen so many
items that they take up multiple columns.
>
>Those are just the commands. Are you intending to cover options as well ?
Good question. I can see a lot of commands coming up to a dialog box that lets you set the
options before executing.
>Are you planning to reduce the number of commands ? Which ones ?
No, but the ones that are rarely used would be buried deeper in the menus.
>Who decides ?
Whoever writes it. And each user can reconfigure to his tastes, once he understands how this
works (at which point he
really doesn't need hand-holding....)
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