Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Date: 5 Apr 2019 07:46:26 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <87ftqxvjnr.fsf@violet.siamics.net> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net LdixU6t0bCltUDNumYQYhg1tAzFTDFL1A5PV9R298Bd8dWbLkv Cancel-Lock: sha1:FqPDC+fCsZUK2UO44BU/VBp6h6E= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:17758 On 2019-04-04, Scott Dorsey wrote: > In article , Huge wrote: >>On 2019-04-04, Rich wrote: >>> Ivan Shmakov wrote: >>>> Neither do I have any better understanding of what a "desktop >>>> environment" is supposed to mean and why I may need one >>>> nowadays. >>> >>> A "desktop environment" is a crutch for the windoze users to allow them >>> to be able to use a computer without having to learn much of anything >>> in the process. >> >>Pompous twat. Welcome to my killfile. > > Well, he didn't say that in the most polite way, but on the whole it's kind > of accurate. Even if it is, the comment was pointless as well as rude. No-one is going to go back to green screens. Might as well rail against electricity. > Graphical file browsers are one of the great evils of the > modern world. Part of the problem is that they make anything other than > trivial operations very difficult, and part of the problem is that they are > forced to bind the same click action to completely different operations. > Click on one file and it opens an editor. Click on another and it > executes. This becomes a severe security issue when people get files > that aren't obviously what they think they are. > > I appreciate the urge to simplify the UI, but you can simplify it way > too much, and people have. Nothing to do with UI's 'per se' and everything to do with oversimplification and the, by modern standards, simplistic Unix security model. -- Today is Setting Orange, the 22nd day of Discord in the YOLD 3185 1. What power do you have? 2. Where did you get it? 3. In whose interests do you exercise it? 4. To whom are you accountable? 5. How can we get rid of you?