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Project GoneME Fixes Perceived Gnome UI Errors
An anonymous reader writes "Project GoneME is the first attempt to try moving the GNOME Desktop into a new direction. The intention is to create a community of people, who are willing and interested to help fixing issues brought up by people for a very long time and make the vision of a usable Desktop in the means of good old Unix fashion become true. In case you are interested to help, please join the project. Plenty of people have shown interest and welcome this step and the IRC channel got filled up within a short time." Update: 07/26 02:33 GMT by T : A project mailing list has been set up for anyone interested in taking part in this endeavor.
Of course, most of the people in the IRC channel are core GNOME hackers who think this is really quite funny.
...so how would one incorporate Cultural Influence on one's UI? I can imagine the desktop menu now with vi and emacs next to each other, with each constantly varying in size... ultimately, with the pico editor finally throwing up a dialog box, "the forces of Pico have decided they prefer the culture of Notepad. Will you let them 'join' that application?" ...from which any calls to pico get magically rerouted to call Notepad instead.
Sure, I'll just ... wait, modal dialog ... I'll just send ... damn, another modal dialog ... send him an email ... doh! modal dialog again ... an email asking ... hold on, another one ... asking ... damn, again ... model dialog ... modal dialog ... LET ME ... modal dialog ... OUT OF ... modal dialog ... YOUR MODAL ... modal dialog ... INTERFACE! ...
No thanks.
The user is handed a really sweet gun, but the clip is half-empty, and the gun is jammed.
KDE: User shouts "hand me a gun!"
13,000 different guns fall from the sky onto the user's head, crushing him to death instantly.
Holy crap, was that a Slashdot Madlib post?
_____(topic) has been going downhill ever since the switch from _____(noun2) to _____(noun3). I know that _____(noun3) has some issues, but that is hardly an excuse to switch to an alternative that is missing most of the _____(plural noun).
Thanks for the links - I may give them a try.
There is very little to be gained by building "by hand" (typingI get The Shakes, hallucinations, and bad gas if I don't get a chance to type:
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -mfpmath=sse,387 -fexpensive-optimizations" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -mfpmath=sse,387 -fexpensive-optimizations" CC=distcc CXX=distccg++ ./configure
at least 3 or 4 times a day. There's not anything WRONG with that, is there?...
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