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40+ Suggestions for Better Desktop

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2006-03-26 08:03. Usability

An article "40+ Suggestions for a Better Desktop" discusses how to extend recent desktops to improve their usability. Ideas in this article cover a wide range of desktop applications, e.g. Nautilus, multimedia, spreadsheets, mail clients, configuration, security...

The article is intended for developers of those applications but users could discuss these ideas so developers will know what a users wants.

My two missing things in gnome

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Thu, 2006-04-06 15:23.

My two missing things in gnome (compared to Windows):
- Main one: it exists in MS Windows a mouse option that tells to automatically set the mouse pointer on the default button everytime a new dialog appears. Pure usability. And I really miss this one. This does not exist in GNOME. I haven't tested KDE for this, but if I learn it exists, this will be my major reason for switching to KDE. No joke.
- Second one: it is practical thing. Still on MS Windows, when right clicking on destop bar, you can tile windows vertically or horizontally. With GNOME, you must rearrange windows by hand.

My background: I am using computers since more than 20 years now, and most of the years where spent on Windows (no surprise: like 95% others people). I decided to switch to Linux, mainly politically for open source movement. And the switching was very hard. If I hadn't political reasons, I would have abandonned, mainly because I had to re-learn a lot of things. Hopefully, I used to work on Unix, and maybe it eased. But don't speak about speed and usability. The other one wins. Period. No troll.

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