[dba-Tech] UI is not just a Windows8 problem

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    
> 
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