No more right click terminal

[Colin Walters]

On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 12:42 -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote:

> I agree that it was a mistake to reduce the accessibility of the
> terminal, and I know a lot of non-geek users that get a lot of use out
> of it...  at the same time, this change is completely consistent with
> the overall trend in Gnome development:  It follows naturally from
> the, in my view mistaken, assumption that the best way to make the
> system easier to use is to design it for an operator with
> substantially diminished mental capacity rather than just designing
> for people who don't want to become Unix sysadmins just to use their
> computers.

Not knowing how to use a terminal does not mean you have "substantially
diminished mental capacity".  

I have several mathematician friends who can run intellectual circles
around me in a number of areas (even besides math) like philosophy and
literature, but don't know or care how computers work.

The idea is to design the desktop for people who want to use the
computer to get work done (sending email, writing documents, etc), not
learn how it works.


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