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Clippy is plopping intrusive tutorials on top of a complex interface. It's not a serious attempt at execution, it's bureaucratic incompetence. What I'm talking
by Detrus 15y ago
Clippy is plopping intrusive tutorials on top of a complex interface. It's not a serious attempt at execution, it's bureaucratic incompetence.
What I'm talking about is more akin to Google and Wolfram, when they give you an answer to a math problem. When you ask "how much water is in the oceans" it would try to figure out if you meant volume, show you related formulas, etc. Similarly for a photo editor you'd say "make the head bigger" and it would list the features one would need, like the selection and resize tools.
So if you only know what the result should be, use keywords to find features, then click to see if they're the right features. It's perfectly doable, just hasn't been attempted.