Re:Ideas Ubuntu should steal from Windows 7
by rbanffy on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @04:36PM
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In my experience, many people don't like Gnome because it doesn't look like the desktop they are used to.
If I went back some 40 years and presented Gnome to IBM mainframe users, they would complain the lettering is not green on black.
But I would love to have the 3278 font available on my boxes.
And no, it's not exactly the one on x3270. They got the 6's and 9's wrong
I've found that reaction doesn't last very long. In fact, configuring any Linux desktop to look extremely similar to Windows[0] leads users to think everything will be extremely similar. They tend to be more upset upon discovering unexpected differences than they are when it's obviously different from the start.
[0] I say Windows here because I've only seen in with Windows users. Users of any other platform are used to the idea of different operating systems.
A single media player for audio and video is not desirable. They're separate and almost unrelated functions; the only time they might belong together is syncing to another device. That's not to say Rhythmbox couldn't use some polish.
How, exactly is Gnome's panel crude? I find panel applets far more natural than the system tray for little utilities that aren't part of a larger app, and I really don't care for Apple's dock. Is there some justification for this claim?