On Friday, January 13, 2012 03:43:13 PM doug wrote:
On 01/13/2012 03:54 PM, Roger Luedecke wrote:
From my understanding GTK3 is fine. The hated thing in Gnome 3 is the
GnomeSHell.GTK 2 and 3 are compatible from what I understand. So, why aren't we simply maintaining or porting the old desktop stuff instead of using GNomeShell, as opposed to forks like MATE and Cinnamon?
I suspect that it's like painters or writers: the devs want to see the public admiring their handiwork. As with paintings and books, not everybody enjoys them, and some people hate them.
Well, it is also mixed with new vs. old generation. Generation on raise is without baggage that old generation learned to carry. Kids are used to smartphone that doesn't ask for skills to operate mouse and keyboard, which are attached to classic computers only because it was cheaper to learn millions of people how to use them, then to create hardware that doesn't need them. Touch screens are here, and speech is around the corner. With my not so good spoken English, it takes time to teach smartphone to execute voice commands, as built in libraries of speech data don't work well in my case, but once phone, or me, learns what works, it is dead easy to use it.
At the place I work for, all in one computers with touch screen happily replace classic box, screen, keyboard and mouse hardware, as computers that run test programs in production. They are easier to place, and even easier to learn how to use. All operator needs to know is to read what is on the screen and touch right option.
Older workers that never got used to keyboard and mouse have no problems with touch screens. Taking grandmas and grandpas as example not being able to use new interface is just a wrong extrapolation of own limitations. Problem is not that old people are not able to use new interface, but that sons and daughters are not able to get out of the box and buy new touch screen hardware that will make seniors life easier.
--doug
-- Regards, Rajko An application is an application. Gnome 3 is no more touch friendly than
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 04:29 -0600, Rajko M. wrote: 2. On the contrary, I'd say its less since it has elements of the edge of the screen that hide. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org