Gnome's Nice Little GUI Perks

asdren writes " Steven Garrity has written a short article highlighting some 'user interface niceties' found in Gnome with regards to file renaming, screen captures, fonts and file zooming." Garrity points out that "... tiny details can have a significant impact on the user experience on operating systems. Inconsistencies that seem insignificant when considering individually, but together they degrade the overall polish and sense of stability in the system," and points out a few places where Gnome manages to avoid such inconsistency.

Comments

WOW!! File Renaming?!

[Anonymous Coward]

What an incredible unique feature. I bet Windows and OS X will be stealing that little gem soon.

Wow...tech advances

[Anonymous Coward]

file renaming, screen captures, fonts and file zooming

So it's at the level of Windows 98 now?

Ingrate

[Anonymous Coward]

What an ingrateful ass!

How do you think the gnome-developers who've been working their asses off for free to bring you the best Free Software desktop in the world feel after they read ignorant bitching like above?

Re:Ingrate

[Anonymous Coward]

Technically KDE is based on a toolkit (Qt) that uses crappy macros to substitute for a proper signalling system... it has no real dependency tree (worth speaking of) and is about a modular as a block of cement. It's also bloated, slow (yes, even the latest version), ugly and has all the UI consistency you'd expect from a system "designed" by a three year playing with crayons. Its applications (with one, and possibly two, exceptions) are barely functional flashy user-interfaces with no substance.

Its language bindings few, and those that do exist are usually half-finished, undocumented and break with every upgrade to GCC (one of the problems you get from C++).

Oh, and its users (and quite a few of its developers) are some of the most obnoxious, loud-mouthed and ignorant zealots in the Linux world... and that really is saying something.

Gnome SUCKS

[Anonymous Coward]

Gnome SUCKS. It's a just a lame interface, not nearly as configurable as KDE, and it seems to crash more often. It also seems to run slower as well. Knoppix has the right idea ...

A reader writes: GNOME IS TEH SuXX0r ROFLLOLOLOLOL

[Anonymous Coward]

Really, Gnome is as outdated as Debian.

A standard widget set?

[Der Krazy Kraut]

You mean like in Winamp, Media Player and ICQ? ;-)

Too bad GNOME uses GTK

[Anonymous Coward]

compared to QT, GTK is a wanna-be toolkit. It's ugly, inconsistent, and not innovative.

Re:Small inconsistencies?

[Anonymous Coward]

And the people who make any good point about Microsoft get modded down simply because it doesn't fall in line with Slashthink.

Re:You've mentioned ONE technical problem...

[Oliver Defacszio]

I'll be honest, I really couldn't care less if I'm taken seriously by the Slashdot collective, as any technical issues I could come up with would be almost certainly brushed off by a group who has an agenda to fulfill at all costs. That is, in short, "Linux roolz". It happens all the time around here.

All I'm saying is that these are some of the reasons why I didn't last on Linux, despite appreciating its appearance. Having snooped around, I've found that all of these are fairly common complaints. Consider them carefully as feature "requests," or throw them away as being the bitchings of a jerk -- it really matters not to me, because I don't care if Linux improves.

Re:Small inconsistencies?

[ircbuddy]

How about standardizing my fist into your stomach?