Restoring the old gnome desktop

[Liam Proven]

On 3 May 2012 00:56, Albert Wagner <albertwagner at cox.net> wrote:
> On 04/28/2012 12:25 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
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>> ...install one of the wallpapers that reminds you what the keystrokes and
>> techniques are, and give it a few weeks.
>
> Really?  I never saw this as a recommended user interface technique in any
> of the books I have read on human-machine interfaces.

Who said anything about UI techniques? It's a *learning tool.* A
slightly more modern 21st century version of /reading the manual/ and
makes good use of modern computers' ability to display a pointless
pretty picture in the background.

The point here being that Unity has more powerful keyboard support
than Windows XP, GNOME 2 or Mac OS X, right off the CD. If you don't
want to use the keyboard, you don't have to; but if you want to be a
power-user, you have some new keystrokes to memorise. This is an /aide
memoire/, no more.

> Here's a slick one:  in a terminal type 'man ' followed by the name of ANY
> installed program.  Of course, it doesn't hop, explode, wriggle, slide or
> change colors or shape.

And this is helpful how, exactly?

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