Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1

From	Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1
Date	2019-04-05 07:46 +0000
Organization	Piglet's Pickles & Preserves
Message-ID	<ggofeiF87l2U2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2019-04-04, Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
> In article <ggnagaFt1fU1@mid.individual.net>, Huge  <usenet@huge.org.uk> wrote:
>>On 2019-04-04, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>>> Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> 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.

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Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-28 22:03 -0400
  Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2019-03-29 06:36 +0000
  Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> - 2019-04-04 16:07 +0000
    Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-04-04 17:16 +0000
      Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-04-04 21:15 +0000
        Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-04-04 19:03 -0400
          Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-04-05 07:46 +0000
            Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-04-05 07:56 +0000
              Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-04-05 16:35 +0000
                Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-04-06 02:49 -0300
                Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-04-06 09:07 +0000
                Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-04-06 07:48 -0400
                Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-04-06 11:56 +0000
                Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-04-06 09:44 -0400
                Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-04-06 13:53 +0000
                Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-04-06 13:35 +0000
          Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-04-05 13:35 +0000
            Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-04-05 13:38 +0000
              Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-04-05 16:36 +0000
    Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2019-04-05 12:25 +0300
    Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Steve555 <Steve555@reallybogus.nodomain.nowhere.invalid> - 2019-06-17 21:39 +0000
      Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-06-18 00:22 +0000
      Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-06-19 06:46 +0000

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