No. EU refers to the "Europe Union", a political term, no to be confused with "Europa", a geographical term. Switzerland ist located in Europa, but is not member of the Europe union. The flag shown for this article is the EU-Flag with the circle of stars on blue ground. Switzerland has - like all countries - it's own flag: a white cross on red ground.
Micro$oft's Office for Linux? Please don't take me wrong, I would never use it, I have OpenOffice.org and many other fine Open Source Application. But imagine all that companies spending money for MS Office _AND_ MS Windows licenses. Now they finally can switch their OS from Windows to Linux because Office is the most important application for them.
As a result, I don't think that MS will develop a native Version of MS Office for Linux.
Please do not take me wrong, I like GNOME very much and i see it as a superior Desktop for UNIX Systems and the most important competitor to KDE.
The problem I have is the button order on dialogboxes, which can - AFAIK - not be changed. GNOME adopts the same schema used by Apple. It is based on a study which says that the readers eye starts searching for a information on the lower right corner of the screen (I did not read the study, so my description may not be accurate). As a result, a typical button order looks like this:
(Cancel) (Save)
On KDE, Windows and many other Desktops, a "most important first" scheme is used. The promoters of this scheme state, that people (in the western world) read from left to right and expect the most important information to come first. therefore, the order looks like:
(Save) (Cancel)
In principle, the button order is not a problem, if all of the applications use the same schema. For example, if You use a Mac, you may expect consistent order. And there is no "right" or "wrong" order, there are just different philosophies.
The only problem I see is the consistency. If you are a GNOME user and also use KDE Apps (or vice versa), you may find the different order disturbing. Of course, if You use Firefox and Kate every day, you can get over this. As for me, I work with a swiss/german keyboard in the office and with a US-keyboard at home. After having problems in the first days, I now switch intuitively between the keyboard schemas.
But anyway, it would be nice to see GNOME and KDE apps adopt the sema Interface guidelines or let the user choose which one he likes.
Especially ravens. They not only use tools, they also build and enhance them. According to the german "Welt am Sonntag", crows even have an idea of the material they use. This makes them even more efficient than chimps.
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No. EU refers to the "Europe Union", a political term, no to be confused with "Europa", a geographical term. Switzerland ist located in Europa, but is not member of the Europe union. The flag shown for this article is the EU-Flag with the circle of stars on blue ground. Switzerland has - like all countries - it's own flag: a white cross on red ground.
Novell thinks they are now in partnership with Microsoft.
IBM, Lotus and many others thought the same.
Micro$oft's Office for Linux? Please don't take me wrong, I would never use it, I have OpenOffice.org and many other fine Open Source Application. But imagine all that companies spending money for MS Office _AND_ MS Windows licenses. Now they finally can switch their OS from Windows to Linux because Office is the most important application for them. As a result, I don't think that MS will develop a native Version of MS Office for Linux.
Please do not take me wrong, I like GNOME very much and i see it as a superior Desktop for UNIX Systems and the most important competitor to KDE.
The problem I have is the button order on dialogboxes, which can - AFAIK - not be changed. GNOME adopts the same schema used by Apple. It is based on a study which says that the readers eye starts searching for a information on the lower right corner of the screen (I did not read the study, so my description may not be accurate). As a result, a typical button order looks like this:
(Cancel) (Save)
On KDE, Windows and many other Desktops, a "most important first" scheme is used. The promoters of this scheme state, that people (in the western world) read from left to right and expect the most important information to come first. therefore, the order looks like:
(Save) (Cancel)
In principle, the button order is not a problem, if all of the applications use the same schema. For example, if You use a Mac, you may expect consistent order. And there is no "right" or "wrong" order, there are just different philosophies.
The only problem I see is the consistency. If you are a GNOME user and also use KDE Apps (or vice versa), you may find the different order disturbing. Of course, if You use Firefox and Kate every day, you can get over this. As for me, I work with a swiss/german keyboard in the office and with a US-keyboard at home. After having problems in the first days, I now switch intuitively between the keyboard schemas.
But anyway, it would be nice to see GNOME and KDE apps adopt the sema Interface guidelines or let the user choose which one he likes.
Especially ravens. They not only use tools, they also build and enhance them. According to the german "Welt am Sonntag", crows even have an idea of the material they use. This makes them even more efficient than chimps.
See here. Ok, that's a pretty old Browser, but it's also a pretty old Box and I won't upgrade it...
...buy this. As for me, I still prefer the HHKB, featuring:
- No Windows keys
- Control key at the right place
- Needs fewer space on the desk letting more room for my cat