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Originally Posted by Hitch
As far as Windows hiding the actual location of folders from their users, of course they do that.
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Yes, and it's stupid, because in the end, no one actually knows *where* all of their stuff is, and people say stupid thinks like "my picturse are in iPhoto", or "my book is in Scrivener", which causes them to try to "back them up" by dragging and dropping the iPhoto or Scrivener icon onto a USB-stick.
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I'm just sayin': unless you deal with the regular, not-geeky, public all day, telling them how to do stuff, you have NO idea what I'm talking about. That doesn't mean you're stupid, or your idea is bad, or anything like that; it just means...you are assuming that everyone can do "the simple stuff," and I'm here to tell you: no.
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I have worked as a first line support engineer (help desk employee) for about 6 years. I know what you are talking about.
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They can't. Most of them find what we think to be normal, everyday computer usage challenging. I will tell you right now that more than 60% of my clients don't know what browser they use--when I ask, they say "Yahoo" or "Google" or whatever. Most of my clients don't know how to type in the URL bar--they can only search for things.
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The customers you describe do exist, but fortunately, even I didn't encounter those too often. People like those should be prohibited of using a computer.
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{shrug}. FWIW. As I said--rock on. Best of luck with your program, I mean it, I do. I just think that most people at that level of wanting "barebones" could very easily just use Ywriter for it, which acts pretty much like you're describing and outputs fairly clean RTF, which, Vydor says, can be made into a barebones ePUB. But hell, don't let me stop ya.
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This is precisely what I can't understand.
HOW can someone use something like YWriter, let alone Word, with a hundred-thousand-bazzillion options, if they are not able to create a folder and put a file in it, on their fracking desktop?