<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html style="direction: ltr;"> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body style="direction: ltr;" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> I'm glad people find this to be an interesting read - that was my intention in this writeup: to get people in the community to think about the requirements and design of new interface paradigms, discuss them, criticize them, and provide additional feedback, so that a healthy balance can be found between the desire to innovate (and well, strange developer whims) and something that actually provides increased usability for users. However I'm concerned that a blogged, illustrated writeup may easily turn into general negative hype, which will ultimately do the project a disservice. I believe it's not too late to change things for the better and come up with a really good interface, and I think discussions in the lists and channels can help achieve this, which is why I posted here. If these changes never come about, even after the issues have been pointed out to the developers, that would be another story... The road to usability is paved with good intentions ;-) Amichai A. Tres Finocchiaro wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:e9084d080911051447m135c7c44q89bed18f91a9c004@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">Amichai, Finally got the chance to read this. Sounds like early kde4. Lots of new great ideas but poor execution. I'm right along with you and hundreds of other users that get frustrated when interface cleanup turns into interface clutter (try right clicking a quicklaunch icon in Windows 7 for example). I'm also old school and set in my old school ways. Thanks for an interesting read. I think thousands would benefit if you had a blog write-up with pictures. It would take a while to create, but would really outline the interface for those like me hesitant to install it. -Tres <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Peter Antoniac <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:pan1nx@linux.com">pan1nx@linux.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">> Thanks for you time and efforts, </div> Thanks for the review. You should send this email also to the other list: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Nice work! Peter - Peter Antoniac, PhD <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://launchpad.net/%7Epan1nx" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~pan1nx</a> GIT/CS a C+++ UL+++$ w--- PGP++ e++++ BOFH excuse #310: asynchronous inode failure <div> <div class="h5"> -- kubuntu-devel mailing list <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel</a> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> -- - <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:Tres.Finocchiaro@gmail.com">Tres.Finocchiaro@gmail.com</a> </blockquote> </body> </html>