[PLUG] Screwed

[Jeme A Brelin]

On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> In my mind, I wasn't in an application. An application is OpenOffice.org 
> Writer. It is Sylpheed. It is Firefox. It is NOT a terminal window. But 
> that is really irrelevant.

You need to expand your mental constructs.  A narrow-mind is not generally 
a flexible mind.

> My bitch is that YOU know how to get out of the situation, but I did 
> not. I am an ordinary user.

Well, who made you think CTRL-Z was the right thing to do to quit your 
pager?

> It would have taken maybe ten seconds for the developer to have added a 
> line after "END" that said how to get out of it. Instead, the developer 
> assumed I had your knowledge of Linux. As a result I am now faced with 
> the problem of how to clean up a godawful mess. I refuse to accept the 
> blame for poor documentation.

Yeah, I had to reboot my computer every couple of hours when I was working 
because there were these freakin' windows all over the place and it just 
got clogged up and I couldn't work effectively.   Instead, I just rebooted 
the machine every few hours and that cleared the desktop and gave me a 
nice surface.

Then somebody came along and showed me that clicking the X in the window 
would close it or I could click "File" and then a box pops up where I have 
to then click "Quit" or sometimes I have to actually type "exit" in a 
terminal.  It would have taken the programmers two seconds to add a line 
that would pop up a message telling me how to close the window when I was 
done with the application, but instead they assumed I had a working 
knowledge of desktop windowing environment!  As a result, I had all kinds 
of wasted time and lost productivity.  I refuse to accept the blame for 
poor documentation.

> OK, I'm going to shut up now and go to bed. In the morning perhaps I 
> will be in a better mood.

And even if you aren't, perhaps you'll keep it to yourself... or maybe 
call your mom and get a hug.

J.
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      Jeme A Brelin
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