Ubuntu Boot Up Logo

[dan]

On 22/06/05, Ante Karamatić <ivoks at grad.hr> wrote:
> 
> And your point is "to attrack more users, Ubuntu will have to look like
> Windows", cause, they are familiar with start button,
> Applications/Places/System buttons will scare them? Or clock in top
> right corner is OMG, it should be in lower right. Or, umounting USB
> device should be in lower right conrner, not on the device icon (this is
> very stoopid Windows UI detail)?

To attract more users I would suggest making the Ubuntu experience the
most enjoyable and easiest. The matter of the fact is that people find
the boot up text scary.

> People are thinking in a wrong way (start -> shut down, usb devices
> umounting, text is wrong), so we should go with the flow? If they are
> scared of text, they should really reconsider meaning of life. People
> communicate via words, written words. Maybe I'm wrong, but wouldn't you
> expect computers would be designed to communicate with you in the same,
> natrual way for humans?

But for the end user, the boot up text is meaningless and does not
need to be communicated (unless something goes wrong, hence a "click
here for details" etc.)
 
> You see, lots of people that use Windows are scared when you rearange
> icons on desktop or unmaximize window. Should we contiune that MS/Apple
> brainwash or change this scary way of thinking?

That has nothing to do with Microsoft or Apple, but a lack of
willingness or actual need to know on part of the user. Moving icons
isn't really critical to typing an essay or using the Internet, so it
isn't surprising that people get freaked when you move something they
thought was static.

The "real" end user wants to know how to open up a word processor and
the Internet and how to shutdown the computer. That's it. Everything
else is seen as a misty haze of "I'll better not touch in case I break
it".

The difference between "us" and the "real" users is we like to go into
that mist... And the beauty of Linux is that both can co-exist.

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