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Re: Get rid of the splash-screen!
by Eric Laffoon on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @14:45
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> >However my poilitics would surely chase you away
> ?!?
It's humor. Relax. What can I say? I am irrepressibly irreverent. ;-)
> I understand the benefits of OO and abstration, obviously. It's an interpretation of specialisation of labour for an economist-thinking person like me. I understand your concern that i'm just a mooching user, but frankly I'm an HTML hobbyist. I could learn to do what you ask of me, but I have more pressing schoolwork to do.
No problem. I understand this posture.
> The only 'time-economical' thing I could do is alert a developer, which I did in my initial posting, though I admitedly chose the wrong forum, and was a little late in doing so.
Nobody's perfect. We knew it was missing though. We just had the same contraints. Not enough time.
> I'm sorry if I've offended you. I do like Quanta, if it matters for anything. I just don't understand why you're upset.
No offense and I'm not upset. I'm simply responding to what you said. Sorry if you took it wrong. Actually you brought up some very good points by way of apparent assumptions. Logically not everyone can be deeply involved in all the things they interface with to the degree that they would be as passionate as I am on this topic. I am deeply involved and I did considerable research and pondered long and hard on our course of action. It's human nature to want to fall into repetative patterns and evaluate things based on comfortable paradigms that may not best serve us. I frequently have to repeat over and over again things like kio means we have all io slaves automatically and such. I expect to have to repeat that Quanta is actually moving toward strong user extensibility and that we need to ask the tiniest percentage of users to step up.
Why should I expect anyone to know that or even to grasp the implications the first time it zings by? The bottom line is that I have to look to introduce this mindset regarding Quanta to the community that throughthis design paradigm shift we can leverage a much larger development effort and provide a richer and more diverse tool.
I apologize if you misinterpreted what I was saying or were any way offended. Your posts were a perfect vehicle to bring out the key points we are addressing. Thanks.
> Since, structurally, it doesn't take long to support new features, I'll probably be using it in a couple weeks anyways.
That'd be my guess. then it's up to our developers and contributing users to convince you that I might have actually had a pretty good idea to make a tool that easily shaped to fit your needs. Who knows? Maybe some day you will actually cheer for a program.
You know, I like you. Have a free copy of Quanta on me. ;-)
Cheers
Eric |
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