Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Thu Jun 13 11:54:26 CDT 2013
Well, the nice thing about open source is that you have the freedom to choose your desktop and, better yet, fork the code - as Linux Mint is doing with their Cinnamon desktop. Cinnamon takes all the underlying improvements of Gnome 3 and puts a better, more traditional UI on top. This is something you can't really do with Windows 8 and you can't uninstall Metro. :| - Hans On 2013-06-13, at 9:22 AM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > Hi All: > > The Window8 user interface has been panned to ad nauseum but Microsoft is > not the only screw ups. It appear that Gnome3, a Linux distro interface is > getting the third degree and it appears justifiably so. > > Maybe the designers of the two interfaces can learn from each other as both > seem to have violated the fundamental rules when designing for clients which > has resulted in exactly the same problems and conclusions. > > 1. Lack of configuration options > > 2. Developers don't listen to users > > 3. Bring back traditional interface > > http://felipec.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/the-problem-with-gnome-3/ > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com