Linux Project (RE: Linux vs. Windows and why win is winning!)

[Monty Harder]

7/29/01 1:04:54 AM, Edgar Allen <era at sky.net> wrote:

>My Redhat 7.0 has 3140 commands available at the command line.
>
>If each pulldown has 5, 6, or 7 elements then the menues must go
>to file levels.  If you want some things to end before the fifth level
>then those will be in addition to the cascading entries.

I think you can get by with more than 7 elements per pulldown.  I just want to avoid what most Win 
users see in 
Start|Programs, which is every single software publisher's name, in addition to the categories of 
MS stuff.  I've seen so many 
items that they take up multiple columns.

>
>Those are just the commands.  Are you intending to cover options as well ?

  Good question.  I can see a lot of commands coming up to a dialog box that lets you set the 
options before executing.

>Are you planning to reduce the number of commands ?  Which ones ?

  No, but the ones that are rarely used would be buried deeper in the menus.

>Who decides ?

  Whoever writes it.  And each user can reconfigure to his tastes, once he understands how this 
works (at which point he 
really doesn't need hand-holding....)