Everaldo and Jimmac On Linux Art and Usability

Eugenia writes "Metin Amiroff of OSNews interviewed the well known artists of KDE and GNOME, Everaldo and Jimmac. They discuss their first steps into Linux, the applicationss they use and why Linux still doesn't have all the professional applications and support they need for their day to day work, their inspiration, the state of the Linux desktop visually and usability-wise, the SVG factor and their future plans for KDE and GNOME."

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Re:Linux art varies greatly..

[lifebouy]

Sure. Very good points. And since we are discussing fixing Linux's desktop, lets please throw in the fact that it all starts with XWindows. If you're going to fix it, fix it from the foundation up. Linux needs something else. I love XWindows. But it's LOTS of overhead for most folks. Except a few power users, most people don't use XWindows's functionality at all. Something much simpler would do nicely. It's like installing a hydraulic lift and pnumatic tools in your home garage. For shade tree mechanic work, you pretty much wasted your cash. Or installing surround sound on a completely deaf person's home theater system. He (or she) really doesn't need it. I'm not saying to get rid of it, I simply want a more sane option. While I'm dreaming, make it cross-platform, so that it could replace the windows shell. That way, I could have my same interface no matter what, even though functionality would differ.