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How Configurable Should a Desktop User Interface be?
The Original Yama writes "In the world of user interface design there are two main schools of thought. The former maintains that the environment must be flexible and configurable enough to adjust to a user's needs. The latter takes the opposite perspective, arguing that many of today's user interfaces have become bloated and overloaded with features, and consequently have become difficult to maintain and use. KDE developer Mosfet shows how the KDE Project has managed to bridge the gap between the 'highly configurable' and 'less is more' camps."
as long as I can get on Slashdot.
(insert kiss-ass grin to moderators here)
TLoM: Nerds + DDR + Rednecks for the win!
Enough to make it so the average user cant really tell the difference between Windows and Linux. That would really help out those not framilliar with Linux. Its just a GUI issue...
In college, really poor, need a flatscreen.
As long as you get there first.
KDE: ripping off the worst parts of Windows and Mac OS since 1997.
Sad that KDE is possibly the simplest mostly-usable linux GUI in existance. Never trust a bunch of coders to make a good desktop (l)user's GUI. They inevitably make a programmer's GUI (you know the type: it may or may not be pretty, has an ultra-steep learning curve, but after it's learned it's super efficient to use, especially for coders and hackers and other geeks), or at best some unholy cross of the two that's not efficient and configurable enough for a coder and not intuitive and refined enough for a user.
It's not enough that a GUI works, it has to be *good* as well.
the answer must be YES!