menu troubles (heh)

[John]

Michael Shigorin wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 05:53:57AM +0800, John wrote:
> 
>>>Single app can be a "music player"; 
>>
>>No, many users use more than one computer, and it's important
>>to know _which_ mustic player. Imagine a support call:
> 
> 
> These aren't "simple" users.

My wife, a simple user, alternates between Windows XP (work). Ubuntu 
Warty and Fedora Core 3. She uses what's provided.

Teachers at school alternate between OS X (work) and Windows (at home). 
They don't actively choose either, it's what came with the gear they use.




> 
> 
>>Wife:
>>  Music Player doesn't work!
>>Hubby:
>>  Which music player?
>>Wife:
>>  You know, Music Player?
> 
> 
> "...that blue one", and Hubby guesses that was Amarok ("big one") 
> or bmp ("smaller one") with native themes. ;-)
> 
> 
>>atm I'm trying to get Wife to try out my old laptop which
>>should be entirely sufficient for her needs, in place of the
>>bulky, older Pentium III. Her major lament is, "Why is it
>>different?" The laptop is running FC3, the P III Warty.
> 
> 
> So the problem is diversity of distros, and it's more apparent 
> than the one of music players.

Probably not the diversity of distros, likely she'd complain if the 
laptop had Breezy on it. She's complained before about different 
releases of RHL.

She's not concerned about msic players, that's what tape recorders and 
CD players are for.

> 
> 
>>Probably, email clients illustrate the point better than music
>>players.  I use mostly Pine, Mozilla Mail and Thunderbird,
>>sometimes Kmail and rarly but not never Mutt and Evolution.
>>On OS X it's Mail and Thunderbird.
> 
> 
> Definitely but in a little package there's place for only one of
> them.  If it's not a MUA Zoo LiveCD or kind of, that is.

Can't I have tbird on Ubuntu? I thought it was in. Mozilla?

Whatever it is, whoever she calls for help needs to know what she's 
using. That's a point I made before Warty, and which was addressed, and 
least in the instance I cited then.


> 
> It's no first time consideration on my part, and I quite
> understand the decision to call apps by functionality-based
> tags in default install.  The problems begin with zooing it

zooing? I thought my English was fairly good, but that escaped me.