"My first 48 hours enduring Ubuntu"

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 05:52:38PM +0700, Chanchao wrote:
> Yet all of them together do show a pattern.. It's quite an enjoyable
> read, seeing how he gets completely anal about every dot and comma.

I wouldn't describe his complaints as "anal." Linux does
have usability problems -- GNOME is still not as usable as
Mac OS X, though it's getting there.

Apple is phenomenally "anal" about the way that their UI
works. A friend who does OS X development told me that he
was using the GUI designer the other day, and it wouldn't
allow him to put UI elements -- buttons, boxes, lists, etc.
-- outside of particular spots that were dictated by the
Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines (HIGs). Would that
GNOME were so anal.

I have no doubt that within a few years, GNOME will be just
as usable as OS X. I think what it will need, though, is a
much tighter set of HIGs, to keep a much less centralized
group of software developers writing on the same page.

-- 
Stephen R. Laniel
steve at laniels.org
+(617) 308-5571
http://laniels.org/
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