Ubuntu's success

[Tristan Wibberley]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Tristan Wibberley wrote:
> 
>> Derek Broughton wrote:

>> Oh yeah, a third: "If it isn't both documented and discoverable, your
>> new users can't use it"
> 
> ?  I'm not sure how that relates to the CLI/GUI debate :-)  It's 100%
> correct, though.

The are many GUI tools around with CLI versions whose presence is not
well documented and it is hard for new users to find out that there
could be a better, more reliable way to do things. You could have
somebody automating something with dogtail when they should be writing a
script. gconf is one that is not terribly easy to find out about the
commandline version. And the method for adding new directory trees to
the system is not easily discoverable.

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Tristan Wibberley