I'm not sure if your post is partly ironic humor, but really, why should we have UI to simplify tasks like file management, and then restrict it to three folders depth etc?
Also gnome indeed does touch everything. It made a huge list of changes to my.Xdefaults (xterm became mostly unusable having dark grey bg), while it provided me no option to not to do that. All happened when I just started my gnome session, nothing else.
Well, for what I can say, the new gnome has become much more simple, but also less usable (in the means of intuitivity at least). I consider myself experienced with differend UIs and stuff, but it took quite a long time to figure out how to have just one panel, how to manage the menus. I didn't even know how to use the new nautilus. I was unable to get the toolbar visible, and unable to switch to the browser mode. Yes, I didn't just have the correct information, but what kind of a story does that tell about the UI?
I appreciate the GNOME project a great deal, it has some very good ideas no other desktops have, looks very attractive and imho doesn't have too much extra fuzz. But as the way it's now, it's not always as intuitive to use as it could be.
For example, the drag and drop system is very difficult. When I tried to make a shortcut of a program, it tried to move the file. When I manually made the shortcut to the desktop and tried to move it to the application menu, it was moved to the panel instead. I was unable to rename the GIMP to Gimp-2.0 to distinguish it from Gimp 1.0 as I use both.
Well, might be that lots of this is configurable in gconf, but where should I have launched the program? There was no link for it even in the settings menu. When I checked the theme tool, there were just different themes for UI, window decorations and maybe something else. But not much of options.
At least there should be a button in program preferences for the gconf tool (with settings for the current program readily opened) so that it is easy to launch.
Because in most languages, people read from left to right, so the leftmost button is the first button seen. Yeah, after reading the eye may stop (or rest) at the right edge. But when the right button has been found, there's no need to read the other ones. If you wish to click yes, you don't have to know where the no button is.
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I'm not sure if your post is partly ironic humor, but really, why should we have UI to simplify tasks like file management, and then restrict it to three folders depth etc?
Also gnome indeed does touch everything. It made a huge list of changes to my .Xdefaults (xterm became mostly unusable having dark grey bg), while it provided me no option to not to do that. All happened when I just started my gnome session, nothing else.
Well, for what I can say, the new gnome has become much more simple, but also less usable (in the means of intuitivity at least). I consider myself experienced with differend UIs and stuff, but it took quite a long time to figure out how to have just one panel, how to manage the menus. I didn't even know how to use the new nautilus. I was unable to get the toolbar visible, and unable to switch to the browser mode. Yes, I didn't just have the correct information, but what kind of a story does that tell about the UI?
I appreciate the GNOME project a great deal, it has some very good ideas no other desktops have, looks very attractive and imho doesn't have too much extra fuzz. But as the way it's now, it's not always as intuitive to use as it could be.
For example, the drag and drop system is very difficult. When I tried to make a shortcut of a program, it tried to move the file. When I manually made the shortcut to the desktop and tried to move it to the application menu, it was moved to the panel instead. I was unable to rename the GIMP to Gimp-2.0 to distinguish it from Gimp 1.0 as I use both.
Well, might be that lots of this is configurable in gconf, but where should I have launched the program? There was no link for it even in the settings menu. When I checked the theme tool, there were just different themes for UI, window decorations and maybe something else. But not much of options.
At least there should be a button in program preferences for the gconf tool (with settings for the current program readily opened) so that it is easy to launch.
Then, what was the reason?
Because in most languages, people read from left to right, so the leftmost button is the first button seen. Yeah, after reading the eye may stop (or rest) at the right edge. But when the right button has been found, there's no need to read the other ones. If you wish to click yes, you don't have to know where the no button is.