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User Interfaces in Free Software

Posted by michael on from the too-many-widgets-spoil-the-desktop dept.

Havoc Pennington wrote a piece on creating good user interfaces, with special attention toward GNOME 2. See also the advogato thread.

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  1. Re:Things To Do Today by j0nkatz · · Score: 0, Troll

    A canibal walked in to the canibal resturant and was looking at the menu...

    Windows Administrator $2
    Windows Developer $2
    Solaris Administrator $2
    GNU Hippie $16

    The canibal asked the waiter, "Why is the GNU Hippie so fucking much?"

    The waiter replied, "You ever tried cleaning one of those things?"

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  2. Gnome/KDE/Xfce by Glanz · · Score: 0, Troll

    I find that most of the "problems" in Gnome are directly related to the Nautilus File browser/manager, and that is why I do not use it to draw the desktop or as the principle file manager. GMC fills all functions admirably. Now for KDE: bloted libraries, many useless apps... and the list goes on. The Konqueror FM is good though, and so is Kmail.... That's about it. I have the best of both worlds so to speak. I find myself using Xfce with the Gnome panel added. I call up both KDE and Gnome apps simultaneously without a glitch. But for everyday use, I prefer Gnome. I just wish thay would totally drop Nautilus, and move totally away from the attempt at eye-candy into something serious.

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