[tex-live] removing belleek from TeXLive

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard mpg at elzevir.fr
Tue Aug 10 14:05:08 CEST 2010


Le 10/08/2010 14:00, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) a écrit :
> Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
>> Le 10/08/2010 06:44, Beuthe, Thomas a écrit :
>>> Indeed, but what would be the point of the windows GUI then?
>>
>> The point is to allow to do the most often needed actions.
>>
>> Maybe it would be better to have a more complete GUI, allowing to do anything
>> that could be done from the command line, but:
> 
>> - it is not that easy to design a GUI with lots of options without making it too
>> intimidating to the newcomers;
> 
> Although I can understand why you make that last statement,
> Manuel, I am not convinced that it is true.  Seamonkey (for
> example) has an extremely large number of options, some
> of them available only through an "Advanced" button, yet
> it seems to be usable without difficulty by a large number
> of people on multiple platforms.
> 
Wait, I didn't say it was impossible. I just mean it requires some effort. You
can't just keep throwing new options in without thinking.

Manuel.


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