I agree I hate the metro interface, Why Microsoft have decided to include it in There next server o/s god knows, I hate Unity aswell and prefer the look and feel of Gnome 2.0 ( Centos) as I have no intention of owning a tablet I won't be buying a Windows 8 device, Will be using Win 7, Centos and Debian on and will prob invest in a Google nexus 7 when they launch and am still trying to get my hands on a raspberry pi. Keep the Gui simple even better switch it off and use the cli :)
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On 1 Jul 2012, at 22:19, "Stephen Davies" <stephen.davies@???> wrote:
> As a professional software developer who has been writing programms since the days of Card Decks, George 3 , SOFOR and paper tape, I find this latest craze on desktops (Gnome 3, Unity & Windows 8) rather depressing.
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> (Ignoring the 'touchy feely' of touchscreens that everyone seems to rave ove these days)
> If they had been around at the birth of GUI/Windowing systems I would have understood them.
> Now IMHO, this searching and every icon on the desktop idea is frankly so silly, it beggars belief.
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> In 'no' work mode, I use (like most people ) a set of apps that number no more than say 10. Email, Web, Skype, Bittorrent etc
> I could live with the methodology of the new interfaces if I could have the old menus for those times that I need something out of the ordinary and have ho idea of the executable or icon but I know it belongs in a group associated with a product. A hice hierarcihial tree structure. Very Logical.
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> In work mode the standard set of apps I use goes up considerably. Not all are 'installed via traditional installers in order to save time, I use (on windows Quick Launch (yes you can get it back even on Windows 7/Server 2008) and the Gnome 2 launchpad.
> One click of the mouse and The app starts. Now what could be more logical or simpler than that? Yet the GUI - Those who must be obeyed Overlords have deemed that I am no longer fit to have this nice easy to use facility. It is almost as if they are telling me that I'm about to be pensioned off so I am only fit to use a Fisher Price Interface.
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> Yes, many of you are thinking that I'm a grumpy old man. That is probably true but IMHO, these designers have taken something that wasn't totally broker and made it only fit for the great trashcan in the sky.
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> I know I'm fighting a losing battle and very soon you won't be able to buy a new computer without one or other of these 'Tellytubby' interfaces or even remove what the manufacturer has installed for you without fear of a knock at the door from the IP Police (my name is not winston smith) but I know one this:-
> 1) I will never buy a computer that forces me to use Windows 8/Windows-RT Windows 7/Server 2008 will be the last offereings from Microsoft that I ever use.
> 2) I will never use a computer that has Unity or Gnome 3 configured as the primary Interface unless I can configure it to use something a bit saner and more logical.
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> A plague on all their houses.
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> Stephen D
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