[E-Lang] what is good about E?

[Ken Kahn]

MarcS wrote:
> My current plan for an installer/execution system always gives the program
> the authority to create a window (when would you not want the app to be
able
> to talk to you? :-) and the "authority" to _request_ a file, and the
> authority to read their own resources. And program windows are always
> targets for drag/drop operations, which are excellent metaphors for
> conveying authority. Like I said, the questions my installer would ask a
> grandmother for a grandmother's apps would be simple and few.
>
>

Sounds like good defaults but I can imagine when you might the want the app
to only be able to talk to you and not create a window. Maybe you are giving
a presentation and don't want a window to appear during your PowerPoint
presentation. Or maybe the app is supposed to do something in the background
and the user isn't skilled enough to deal with problems so the app should
communicate with a different user if there is a problem. And so on.

It would seem the solution is to have lots of pages with defaults checked so
that a non-grandmother type could find those pages and make other choices.

Best,

-ken