From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 6 1: 0:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D452837B402 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 01:00:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 69749 invoked by uid 100); 6 Mar 2002 09:00:26 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15493.55978.64561.743039@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 03:00:26 -0600 To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I bought your system and am not so happy! In-Reply-To: <20724537@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.48 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cliff Sarginson types: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:37:54AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Subscribe to the libh list. That's where the UI that's going to be the > > heart of the new installer is being worked on. Please. Most of your > > ideas are very much on target, and having a good UI person at least > > reviewing the code would certainly help. > There is an easy "test" of a good UI. > If it in any way, shape, size or form resembles the GNU "info" navigation > model it should be mercilessly put to death by the sword. So *that's* why we never see complaints from you about web browsers. You think the web should have been mercilessly put to death by the sword. Info has a strange history. It was originally an online hypertext help system for a bunch of editor macros for teco. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message