Alan Cox <alan <at> lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
The ignoranti may want a UI with no learning curve, but they're not going to get it. Even the nipple takes time for an infant to learn how to use.
That's somewhat arrogant and misleading. You assume that people want exact control of everything they use, whereas most people want detailed domain knowledge and control of a few things and would prefer the rest just worked simply without configuration.
Sounds like the award-winning GNOME 2 DE :-) But the ueber-driven KDE fans called it "dumbed down" ...
... Then there is discoverability, making a user interface something you can gradually learn and find the extra features in - like hotkeys and shortcuts. That's one case where Gnome 3.2 panel in fallback fails horribly - alt right-click ???? how will anyone logically deduce this and try it ?
Yep, that's the most sensible critique so far in this thread (after mine) - it almost matches "The Linus view of GNOME 3.2" ...
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JB