Comments about Linux/Ubuntu from a former MS-programmer

[Derek Broughton]

Eric Dunbar wrote:

> Seriously though, to me KDE is more of a Windows clone (by default)
> than GNOME but neither are perfect as they borrow too many of the
> _bad_ Windows paradigms.

I agree completely.  I've made KDE as unlike Windows as possible (otoh, I
have an account for my wife that's even _more_ Windows-like than the
default), but it _is_ still intended to not scare off Windows users. 
Consequently, you're right, it copies some of the really bad stuff.  otoh,
getting any two people to agree on which bits are the bad parts, is a
problem :-)
 
> Windows and Linux have a _bad_ window resizing paradigm in that you
> can zoom a window to maximum screen size (good), but all of a sudden
> the controls for the window change and disappear. There's no
> correspondence between before and after.

I'm sitting here changing windows in both Windows & KDE and I can't see what
you're saying.  In KDE, maximizing a window doesn't change it in any way -
except to change the "maximize" button to a "restore" button.  You can then
drag any edge and it changes the button back to "maximize".  In Windows,
the edge control disappears, but otherwise the controls seem the same.
-- 
derek