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   From: Michel Firholz    
   Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware,alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
   Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:44:37 +0100   
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   On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:07:54 -0600, Topaz_Crow wrote:   
      
   > On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:46:36 +0100, Michel Firholz   
   >  wrote:   
      
   >> By the way: did you notice in  the right-click menu for text files   
   >> icons the option: "edit as root".   
   >> Brilliant, isn't it?   
   >    
   > That's nice. If all you want to do is edit a file as root. It is nice   
   > that Ubuntu has this feature. Very handy. But how about a right click   
   > menu to rename thousands of text files by stripping the spaces and   
   > special characters from the current filename, replacing the spaces with   
   > underscores, prepending "log", appending a number starting with 0000001   
   > and capitalizing the extension?   
   >    
   > No, you are right, what kind of newbie is going to want to do that? But   
   > eventually newbies are going to be non-newbies and will want to start   
   > doing things the easy way. Introducing them to the command line will   
   > teach them that it's not something to be avoided but something that is   
   > very cool.   
   I think you begin to understand what I mean. The console is powerful and   
   maybe cool. It is not evil. But please, please don't preach that one   
   *must* use it from the first day. Not in Ubuntu.   
      
   Michel   
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