Auto-launching of applications

[Bruce Cowan]

On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 10:19 +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> You and I (and most Ubuntu developers) are in a small fraction of people
> who are confident in clicking things even when we don't know what they
> are. Last year, a schoolteacher friend of mine -- who is much smarter
> and more well-read than I will ever be -- went to the trouble of taking
> a screenshot of his Windows screen, printing it out in color, and
> bringing it to me to ask what all the icons next to the clock were. The
> idea of hovering over the icons or clicking on them hadn't even occurred
> to him.

Perhaps you can explain to me why Evolution doesn't pop up automatically
every hour, as some people don't know what the strange envelope icon is.

I'd like it if my (rather long) post to this list was moderated, it took
me ages to write it.
-- 
Bruce Cowan <http://launchpad.net/~bruce89>
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