Re:Nextspace: a desktop environment that brings a NeXTSTEP l...
by kaba0 on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @03:37AM
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Could you sit in front of Blender, Microsoft Office, GIMP or Photoshop without previous knowledge of them and do anything at all with them? What about IDEs? Please see my other comment where I go into more detail, but I think sufficiently pro features can’t really be made discoverable and it’s okay to have only the base functionality exposed. And I don’t think linux changes anything over that other than you being able to use a different desktop env/window manager. I have had my fair share with tiling wms and whatnot, but on linux I now default to Gnome. It is opinionated but I think that’s the job of a good wm.
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Re:Nextspace: a desktop environment that brings a NeXTSTEP l...
by daoismyname on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @04:09AM
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> Could you sit in front of Blender, Microsoft Office, GIMP or Photoshop without previous knowledge of them and do anything at all with them?
yes
they have menus, especially GIMP, the ugliest of them all, but menus are everywhere just a right click away
but anyway you are in a familiar zone: every software is made that way, except, of course, Apple.
the problem with Apple is that they are trying to make every software look like a calendar or contact list application.
that's a pretty low bar for a standard UI and frankly it means they consider their users mentally challenged.