Re: new rotate wish

On Tuesday 06 January 2004 17:11, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> here's what I'd do:
> - create a directory called 'rotate'

Okay, my typical end user is *already* calling tech support at 
this point.  Multiply by 150-200 and you might begin to grasp 
the scale of the wrongness of this approach to solving end 
users' problems.

Once you grasp just how little normal users *want* to know about 
their computers, once you grasp that to most users, just seeing 
a command line is enough to make you call someone and say 
"There's an error message on my screen, it says C colon slash 
and a pointy thing", once you realize that this is not just 
hyperbole *and* once you realize that *there is nothing wrong 
with these people*.... then you will understand the mindset of 
those of us who are actually serious, to the point of staking 
our businesses on it, about getting people onto the Linux 
desktop.

>Once you've done this a couple of times, it'll take you all of 
>5-10 minutes; most constrained by the time spent sorting out 
>the images you want to keep and the ones you need to rotate.

If by "you" you mean yourself or me, you're right.  If you mean 
"a user who doesn't spend his life parked in front of a 
monitor", I'm afraid you're quite mistaken.  

Rob



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