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" ...
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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