Re: [PATCH 0/1] improvements to the lightweight desktop example

[Mathieu Lirzin]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 04:48:55PM +0100, Mathieu Lirzin wrote:
>      
>      Sure it is!
>      
>      What I meant is that Ratpoison is not the most "intuitive" WM for non
>      GNU Emacs/Screen users.  As a consequence adding it in an example
>      configuration which is likely to be copy and paste, is maybe not the
>      most welcoming thing.  :)
>      
>      IMHO Openbox or anything which is able to launch a program by "clicking"
>      seems more friendly as a default (modulo the accessibility issues which
>      to my knowledge are not addressed by any of the "lightweight" WMs).
>      
...
> So most of them found "clicking" extremely unfriendly.  Please be very 
> carefull when making generalisations like "GUIs are intuitive" "mice are
> friendly" etc.  As we said before - it depends uponn the user.

I don't think I have made this generalisation.  :)

I haven't said that "clicking is more friendly".
I have precisely said "'clicking' seems more friendly as a default".

"defaults" are not adapted to everybody, especially in the case of people
who are computer illiterates.

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Mathieu Lirzin
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