Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756353Ab0LEQRN (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Dec 2010 11:17:13 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:35805 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756129Ab0LEQRM (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Dec 2010 11:17:12 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Florian Mickler Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Regression: sched: automated per session task groups Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 17:16:07 +0100 Message-ID: <20101205171607.770a7810@schatten.dmk.lab> References: <1289783580.495.58.camel@maggy.simson.net> <1289811438.2109.474.camel@laptop> <1289820766.16406.45.camel@maggy.simson.net> <1289821590.16406.47.camel@maggy.simson.net> <20101115125716.GA22422@redhat.com> <1289856350.14719.135.camel@maggy.simson.net> <20101116130413.GA29368@redhat.com> <1289917109.5169.131.camel@maggy.simson.net> <20101116150319.GA3475@redhat.com> <1289922108.5169.185.camel@maggy.simson.net> <20101116172804.GA9930@elte.hu> <1290281700.28711.9.camel@maggy.simson.net> <20101205151220.0c532c94@pyx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org Cc: Nikos Chantziaras , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: f053214107.adsl.alicedsl.de In-Reply-To: <20101205151220.0c532c94@pyx> X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.7.6cvs31 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2105 Lines: 43 On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 15:12:20 +0000 Alan Cox wrote: > > To have a fluid desktop one shouldn't require to hack with terminal > > commands. > > Which is the classic mentality that ruins the big bloated GNOME Linux > desktop "It works my way and every other way is wrong so go screw". Of > course the other half of the problem is exactly that - firefox was once a > small browser, its now a bloated monster too so the scheduler is quite > sensible to pick on it. > > Alan Your rant about big bloated GNOME is... well just a rant. You will never be able to change it. You can just hope, that over time the evolutionary aspects of open source development will fix it. There is nothing wrong with trying to provide ease of use. Graphical interfaces that are well designed are easier to use. Most command-line people just can't cope with the unstable nature of interfaces in the graphical world. CLI's are mostly better from an ergonomic view (old people, heavy working hackers and other power users) because they provide a stable focus point. But this comes at some cost because the human mind is (originally) not tuned for text processing and remembering abstract things like 'words'. It's unique ability to adapt itself to this is.. extraordinary. Most hackers probably don't realize this, but images/icons and other graphical interfaces are more similar to real life and are thus easier to use for 'unadapted' people. "Master minds" that can remember numbers with [really-big-number] of digits often use a trick to do this: They associate every digit-pair with an everyday item. When they learn the number, they construct a story using those items. This story is what they then later use to restore the original number. All that is because humans can remember real life things better than digits or words. Regards, Flo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/