[SM-Discuss] RFC: sorcery usabilty study results

Ismael Luceno ismael.luceno at gmail.com
Mon Mar 31 21:44:10 EDT 2008


El Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:26:40 +0200
Ladislav Hagara <ladislav.hagara at unob.cz> escribió:

> 
> >> So here is the sorted initial list of the shortcuts and what they
> >> woud run: cc - cast --queue (who can spell queue anyway?)
> >> cp - cleanse --prune
> >> dd - dispel --downgrade
> >> gs - gaze search
> >> gv - gaze version
> >> sg - sorcery upgrade
> >> sh - sorcery hold
> >> sq - sorcery -q
> >> su - scribe update
> >>     
> >
> > In my opinion these are a very bad idea. They will confuse users
> > more (because the meaning behind them will be hidden), and worse,
> > they will 
> 
> I also do not like this idea. It is very confusing. Moreover most of 
> your shortcuts are regular names of Unix commands.
> 
> For new users I would created links started with smgl- (smgl-cast; 
> smgl-dispel; smgl-scribe; ...) so if user does not know the right 
> command he/she just writes smgl- and presses TAB and can see all
> sorcery commands.
> 
> Users can use bash-completion.
> 

+1

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Ismael Luceno
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