Suggestions
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| Grishnakh May 14, 2010 6:54 PM EDT |
Instead of adding multiple real desktops, I think Gnome needs to continue with their present direction of making the interface simpler, and removing extra features that only confuse users and make the software more difficult to use. For instance, any features that allow you to configure the way it looks ("themes") are unnecessary and will only confuse users. Take those out, and just adopt a single, standard theme. Similarly, there's many extra gadgets that are only distracting and confusing to most users. For instance, the clock. No one really needs that. It takes up valuable screen space, adds clutter, and is confusing to interact with. Just take it out. Remove any way of accessing the shell or any other command-line interface, because that'll just confuse people. One extremely confusing thing is the program menu. There's too many programs in it, and this confuses users. Instead, just select a handful of programs that users need, such as a web browser and a music player, and put buttons for those on the screen in a convenient place, sort of like the iPhone, but without all the different apps. Don't allow users to use anything besides those programs, because it'll confuse them. Don't allow them to add any new programs either. No more multitasking; that just confuses users. So if you want to listen to music, you click on the music player icon, and play some music. But you can't surf the web at the same time, because that might be confusing. You'll have to buy another computer to surf the web and listen to music at the same time. They should also make a special Gnome version of Firefox that gets rid of tabs and separate windows. There should only be one window, viewing one website, and that's it. If you want to view a different website, you have to navigate away from the one you're currently viewing. Having multiple tabs and windows is too confusing for some users. Finally, the filesystem on Gnome-enabled systems needs revamping. No more directories for users. All of a user's files should be in a single directory, and they shouldn't be allowed to create any subdirectories, because that's too confusing. People get confused when they download a file from the web, and then have to go looking for it. If all the files are in one directory, they won't have this problem. By adopting these suggestions, I think that GNOME will best achieve its vision of a simple, easy-to-use, and non-confusing user interface that doesn't have a lot of extra features that do nothing but confuse and distract people. |
| devnet May 16, 2010 11:01 PM EDT |
be careful, talking about removing features from a desktop because users can't possibly understand them sounds like what Microsoft loves to do. |
| jacog May 17, 2010 5:35 AM EDT |
I do believe this is an attempt at humour. I hope so... please tell me it is. :/ |
| TxtEdMacs May 17, 2010 7:55 AM EDT |
I have to rate this thread as redundant*, because thread appeared earlier under the very same title for the same story with essentially the same advice. Don't believe me, well look at this link: http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/30645/ . Please do not allow humor to spread in an uncontrolled fashion making it seem more like a disease to be avoided than the palliative it should be seen as easing the pains of life. YBT * Meaning been said previously by someone else (or even the same person) or "done that, been there" in the vernacular. [Putting the definition here, because so many times some slashdot moderators seem blissfully ignorant of its meaning.] |
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