On 01/07/12 10:33, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 01/07/12 10:26, Chris Liddell wrote:
>> So, clearly I'm wrong. I've always wanted to work the way Unity works, I
>> just didn't realise it......
>>
>
> I fail to see how being different is 'getting in the way'. There's a
> learning curve with many things, but people seem to have a very low
> tolerance for change on the desktop. Perhaps the proliferation of
> desktops perpetuates that.
>
> 10 Choose a desktop
> 20 Install desktop
> 30 Spend 5 minutes using it, make a snap decision that it's not good
> 40 Goto 10
>
> There's a lot of that about.
>
>> Are you channelling the ghost of Steve Jobs? "There's our way, and
>> there's the wrong way" is not an attitude I ever expected to find so
>> openly espoused in the Unix world, and especially not in the Linux
>> world.
>>
>
> Just because GNOME 2 did it one way for years, doesn't make it the
> right way. It just makes it the established way. The established way
> can still be wrong.
>
> Cheers,
Now, really !
Transparency is a prime user need
Users don't have the same priorities as software developers/designers/or
the overall architects
I don't believe it is fair additionally to compel new users into a
browser-driven search mode, when they're learning replacements for their
WinApps
It is, however, fair to expect experienced users to want to play with a
new way of doing the old things - but not, I feel, to compel them into it
The balance is wrong, for the moment. How one works through ( not with
) Unity, needs to be shifted. Default choices we had with 10.04.x have
been removed. I for one, want them back. While retaining the ability
to shift between old mode & new mode. Just for completeness' sake ..
Re-/Education of an established user-base is something more readily
achieved with a catchment of old faithfuls - who may not have the spare
energy to devote, in order to invest the time, internalizing new forms
of keystroke magic, in order to get their work out
The work, the work, is what matters: not the software ! That is
supposed to be making the work we do, easier - not harder.
( I discern the baleful influence of Cloud technology, behind the
present situation with Unity. Linus Torvalds himself, and many others,
are agreed, that Cloud, Software-As-A-Service, & all the other related
developments forcing unaccountable company controlled
Cloud-server-hosting of our precious data, is an unmitigated
disaster-in-the-making - let alone an unresolvable security nightmare )
Lesz
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gospel of earth, ringing with hope, like May mornings with bird-song,
fresh and healthy as fields of young grain. But those who would be
healed must absorb it not only into their bodies in daily food and
warmth but into their minds, because its spiritual power is more
intense. It is not reasonable to suppose that an essence so divine and
mysterious as life can be confined to material things; therefore, if our
bodies need to be in touch with it so do our minds. The joy of a spring
day revives a man's spirit, reacting healthily on the bone and the
blood, just as the wholesome juices of plants cleanse the body, reacting
on the mind. Let us join in the abundant sacrament--for our bodies the
crushed gold of harvest and ripe vine-clusters, for our souls the purple
fruit of evening with its innumerable seed of stars ". Vis Medicatrix
Naturae, by Mary Webb, in Spring of Joy: Nature Essays, Constable,
London, 1917 "
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