Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

[Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 03 June 2006 09:05 pm, Orn E. Hansen wrote:
>   On the other hand, you've got Linux ... and everything I see on Linux
> today, with the exception of Xgl and compiz, is a cheap copy of Windows.
>  Back a few years, you'd got enlightenment Window manager.  It wasn't
> stable, it was hard to run, but it was great looking and was a knockout ...
> because it didn't look like Windows.  Take a look at Linux themes ... even
> the old
> enlightenment themes are gone.  It all looks like Windows, the feel is the
> same as Windows ... the interface is the same as windows.  The same
> taskbar, the same menu setup, the same icon bar ... it's just windows, with
> a different look.

Nothing wrong with that....  as long as people are used to it and it is 
usable.

Take for example file navigation.   The file navigation in Firefox is 
different than Windows. (The one that starts out with  HOME   DESKTOP  FILE 
SYSTEM...   huh?)    I think it is due to using GTK  or might be QT, I'm not 
sure)   And everyone I've talked to  in the Linux world thinks it's 
abominable....   I certainly do and wish they make it more in line with most 
GUI programs.   I hope they see the light some day.

So don't ask for something different than Windows unless you're sure it's 
better.



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