IWETHEY v. 0.3.0 | TODO
1,095 registered users | 0 active users | 0 LpH | Statistics
Login | Create New User
IWETHEY Banner

Welcome to IWETHEY!

IWETHEY Home / IWETHEY Board / Linux Forum / I disagree.
Post #202,729
by Another Scott
4/10/05 5:33:18 PM
Reply
New I disagree.
His usability comments are a collection of various rants with some reasonable comments mixed in. Complaining that Gnome isn't Mac OS (e.g. his first comment about wasting space by every window having a menu rather than a single one at the top of the screen) is rather stupid. Commenting on the font colors for active versus disabled text is fine. I would send his comments back for a rewrite if I were his editor.

In short, wouldn't hold that up as a good UI review myself.

I downloaded the 5.04 install and live CDs yesterday with the intention of trying them on my T41 (previous attempts with Ubuntu were unsuccessful). If he's representative of the folks at Canonical working on Ubuntu, well...

Cheers,
Scott.
Post #202,762
by ubernostrum
4/10/05 10:58:56 PM
Reply
New Re: I disagree.

Granted, he's leaning a bit toward the Mac with his comments about menu bars, but from a usability standpoint he's right. It's demonstrably better to have one menu bar at the edge of the screen than to have one menubar per window, located underneath the window decoration.

\r\n\r\n

mpt is a bit full of himself, but he knows his stuff.

--\r\nYou cooin' with my bird?
\r\n[link|http://www.shtuff.us/|shtuff]
Post #202,779
by static
Picture of static
4/11/05 12:27:09 AM
Reply
New A bit? :-) A lot...
I was less than a quarter of the way through when I realized he was extremely Mac-centric. His initial criticisms are going to be ignored because of this - IOW, people are going to respond "well stay on a Mac, then". This is a shame, because a lot of the later stuff is actually real problems that should be fixed.

Wade.

Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
 
Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please

-- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne.
     More on Linux usability - (ubernostrum) - (13) - April 10, 2005, 02:41:45 PM EDT
         Bunch of self serving crap. - (broomberg) - (9) - April 10, 2005, 05:12:11 PM EDT
             Actually... - (ubernostrum) - (1) - April 10, 2005, 10:55:32 PM EDT
                 I was wrong on the MS character issue - (broomberg) - April 10, 2005, 11:10:30 PM EDT
             Also. - (ubernostrum) - (3) - April 10, 2005, 11:04:43 PM EDT
                 No. Disagree. - (broomberg) - (2) - April 10, 2005, 11:26:03 PM EDT
                     And the art goes way down into the hardware. - (Andrew Grygus) - April 10, 2005, 11:53:01 PM EDT
                     I never implied there was no 'art' - (ubernostrum) - April 10, 2005, 11:53:51 PM EDT
             He may be annoying, but he's right about that - (ben_tilly) - April 11, 2005, 12:14:19 AM EDT
             Seemed sensible and well reasoned - (tuberculosis) - (1) - April 11, 2005, 07:44:59 PM EDT
                 As I said a couple of times - (broomberg) - April 11, 2005, 08:04:51 PM EDT
         I disagree. - (Another Scott) - (2) - April 10, 2005, 05:33:18 PM EDT
             Re: I disagree. - (ubernostrum) - (1) - April 10, 2005, 10:58:56 PM EDT
                 A bit? :-) A lot... - (static) - April 11, 2005, 12:27:09 AM EDT

Powered by a Beowulf cluster of atomic supermen.
88 ms