On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 03:46:57PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Michael Scherer wrote:
Gnome-shell is not mean to be used nor appropriate for a mobile phone. And despite being rather usable on a touch screen ( I tested ), it is still not sufficient there for 1 million of details ( Vincent Untz talk also said the same, see gnome people to see the details ).
But it is clearly inspired by mobile phone UIs. Why? Phones are not the target, so why copy them? It leads to an interface which is not appropriate for ANY platform. It's not appropriate for mobile phones for the reasons you cite, it's not appropriate for computers because it looks and feels like a smartphone UI, so what IS it appropriate for?
Touch friendliness (but on a laptop / desktop).
Users of computers have certain expectations of how a user interface looks like, and gnome-shell completely fails to meet those expectations (as do Unity and Window$ 8's "Modern UI" (formerly known as "Metro"), which both suffer from the exact same problem).
In my country smart phones are outselling computers, computer sales are way down.