man i thought i was a dork, but this guy takes the cake... i can only absorb so much from the 'net before i'm itching to apply that info in some fashion. most ventures on the net are specifically to research solutions to problems, not become a problem in serch of a solution.
seems to me window managers for any unices have a long way to go before being comparable to the macos user interface. nyself, i use e.14 on a tinkpad133 w/32 ram, and am quite content with it's performance. i also use(on a variety of machines at work)afterstep, fvwm, WM, openwin, motif, and 4dwm. IMHO the bottomline is not which is better or worse, but which functions best for the 98th percentile, and currently none of the unix window managers address this ease of use and intuitive nature.
for those of us designing, modifying, or configuring window managers, it may behoove us to study "macintosh human interface guidlines" by apple. design of an excellent gui is not only look, but feel. intuitiveness and understanding of an object(physical or visual) without instruction or reading explanations is an extremely difficult thing to do. manufacturing firms spend millions of dollars and man hours studying this elusive topic.
time will tell which of the gui's for linux will win the acceptance of the general populace, in the meantime, we should root for our own favorite underdog window managers quitely, but collectively work together to make them all user friendlier and more intuitive.
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man i thought i was a dork, but this guy takes the cake...
i can only absorb so much from the 'net before i'm itching to apply that info in some fashion. most ventures on the net are specifically to research solutions to problems, not become a problem in serch of a solution.
seems to me window managers for any unices have a long way to go before being comparable to the macos user interface. nyself, i use e.14 on a tinkpad133 w/32 ram, and am quite content with it's performance. i also use(on a variety of machines at work)afterstep, fvwm, WM, openwin, motif, and 4dwm. IMHO the bottomline is not which is better or worse, but which functions best for the 98th percentile, and currently none of the unix window managers address this ease of use and intuitive nature.
for those of us designing, modifying, or configuring window managers, it may behoove us to study "macintosh human interface guidlines" by apple. design of an excellent gui is not only look, but feel. intuitiveness and understanding of an object(physical or visual) without instruction or reading explanations is an extremely difficult thing to do. manufacturing firms spend millions of dollars and man hours studying this elusive topic.
time will tell which of the gui's for linux will win the acceptance of the general populace, in the meantime, we should root for our own favorite underdog window managers quitely, but collectively work together to make them all user friendlier and more intuitive.