Linux desktop lacks innovation

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:28:16 -0400
Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

> Peter Garrett wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:06:37 +0000
> > "David Gerard" <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> On 20/11/2007, Joel Bryan Juliano <joelbryan.juliano at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > We live in a world where there are 90% talkers, and 10% doers,
> >> > and I suggest everyone to submit a bug reports to Gnome bugzilla
> >> > featuring your
> >> > ideas on what need to be fixed..
> >> 
> >> 
> >> "Buttons and menus include text. This confuses users as they have to
> >> read and perhaps think."
> > 
> >  "The file system is visible in Nautilus. This could confuse new users."
> > "Totem is normally started by clicking on a file, so we should remove
> > it from the menu."
> > 
> > We could go on... those two have in fact been suggested in the past...
> 
> LOL.  In fact, in Edgy (?) konqueror started to hide parts of the file
> system.  I don't know if it made anything less confusing to the new user,
> but it sure confused a lot of old-timers.

"WARNING: GNU/Linux is not like Windows or Mac - you will be expected to
have a clue. Log in anyway?  [n] : "

;-) 

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