On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 22:46 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On 2010-06-12 22:16, Rastislav Krupanský wrote:
Dňa 12.06.2010 19:51, Atri Bhattacharya wrote / napísal(a):
There is no doubt that should fit to the dekstop.
But this is an universal software managament, not specific apps for Gnome or KDE, like Dolphin or Nautilus. Like YaST Control Center. It's ported to QT and GTK, it fits to the desktop environments, but it's similar when it comes to navigation.
I understand, but what I feel is that there is nothing universal about the software management. When I click on an application in GNOME, I expect it to have a behaviour that goes along with the GNOME desktop [and I don't mean only in looks] such as "search as you type", different button order from KDE and so on. It is good that we have one tool for doing the software management across both KDE and GNOME, but a common user does only use one of these. So I see no reason why there should be a similarity between the two. In terms of features and behaviour, yes there should be parity no doubt about that. But that would require more coordination between the maintainers of the two interfaces. A common roadmap is something we, as community, should look into very seriously for both the interfaces. Then feature parity can be always ensured between the two.
As i wrote in my previous post, e.g. Mandriva's software management looks like the same in Gnome ,or KDE.
I don't see how this should influence the thinking. Mandriva does a lot of other things differently from openSUSE too. As I said before, if the tool has to feel native both to a GNOME user and to a KDE user, then there will have to be interfacial differences and some behavioural differences as well. This is because of differences between the interfaces and behaviours of GNOME and KDE as desktop environments. Really, how many users would use both of these DE's at once. Normal users use either of these don't they? Should the interface be designed with only people who use both DE's in mind?
Yes, IMO, the differences should be in the interface, not the behaviour or features.
True, but some difference in behaviour is inevitable if you have to design an application that feels native to GNOME as well as native to KDE based on what desktop environment you use it from. But this difference should be minimal I agree. -- Atri -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org