Some questions for a newbie

[Chris Green]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 10:49:13AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> 
> > 2) How can I show texts in the xfce panel. The icons are great most
> > times but when they are becoming more it's sometimes hard to remember
> > which icon is for which program.
> 
>   Well, according to those who promote GUIs, pictures are "intuitive".
> Therefore, you should not have to ask this question. :-) Seriously, I keep
> the pictures to an absolute mimimum and use text instead. I learned how to
> read many, many years ago and it's worked wonderfully for me ever since.
> Memorizing the meaning of pictures is counter-intuitive for productivity.
> Anyway, if you pause the mouse cursor over the icon the command line
> associated with it will pop up. And, after a while, you'll remember what
> applications you've assigned to which button.
> 
Hear hear!  Mine's another voice for words rather than pictures to
lauch applications.  We gave up on hieroglyphics a long time ago so
why try and reintroduce them?

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Chris Green (chris at areti.co.uk)