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Gnome's Nice Little GUI Perks

Posted by timothy on from the thinking-of-users dept.

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.

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  1. 6 points by Tongue+In+A+Box · · Score: 3, Funny

    So that's it huh? Years of development, we've come up with better screenshots. Not-so-annoying handling of renaming files. Media players with some nicer features and wait for it....wait for it....zooming!

    Look out Microsoft, your days are numbered!

    1. Re:6 points by imsabbel · · Score: 3, Funny

      Skip the media player with nice features.
      Its just that hardware overlay isnt working :)

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  2. Re:Ingrate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    There are gnome developers working on KDE?

  3. Oh my god!! by twoslice · · Score: 2, Funny
    Look out Microsoft, your days are numbered!

    My days seem to be numbered too. I just looked at my desk calendar and they stop at 29! Oh my god the world is going to end in 21 days!

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  4. Re:Ingrate by Visceral+Monkey · · Score: 3, Funny

    Certainly. You've just described 99% of the articles posted on /.

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  5. So by sulli · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can I copy and paste between apps now?

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  6. Steve? Is that you? by ubernostrum · · Score: 0, Funny
    *AC runs around the stage screaming*
    "INTEGRATED! INTEGRATED! INTEGRATED! INTEGRATED!"



    Text below is to satisfy the lameness filter:

    Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
    Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.

  7. Re:Operating Systems? by blixel · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...thinking that a polished GUI with a consistently applied set of design principles makes the OS better.

    Yeah you're right. It's so much easier when every program you use employs a totally unique way of doing things. It annoys me that clicking the upper right "X" button not only closes out the browser window when using Galeon, but it stupidly does the same thing when I'm using RhythmBox.

    It would be much better if the "X" button did something completely unique for each program. Better yet, it should randomly generate a new function each time you click the icon. Keep things interesting you know. This time it closes out the window, next time it launches Gimp, the time after that it reboots my computer. Now *that* would be cool.

  8. Re:Operating Systems? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hello Richard.

  9. Re:That's stability? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't understand how Debian is $300 less than Mac OS ... let's see .. Mac OS is somewhere in the neighborhood of $130 ... 300 - 130 ... so does that mean that the Debian community pays you $170 dollars to use their system? .. that's where those donation moneys go to ...

    sign me up!