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Depending on where im driving to, the dashboard keeps rearranging!
Thu, 02/01/2007 - 05:33 — admin
heres a typical thing, if you've been stuck in Linux land for several years you may no longer notice this as you've forgotten just how adept you are (arent you lucky!) to be able to pickup new interfaces pretty quickly, but it's not until you follow what all the zealots say and convert an office full of people qualified barely enough todo data-entry tasks to a Linux based desktop solution that you really start to notice how inconsistant it is.
Try it for yourself, you really should see the look on peoples faces when they try to find that file they just saved in the gimp with the KDE konqueror browser, for starters they dont even save in the same location by default, now go and explain to them the linux filesystem architecture..
Where am I? where is this going to save to? oh i don't know ill just hope it saves anyway, care of default gnome interface.. Exactly who do the gnome team consult when they design these? themselves? - Note: this is a new comer to gnome, it was even worse about 2-3years ago believe it or not
Let me expand on this.. hmm this looks about as modern as a datsun 180b
ok excellent, now im in KDE and i can see straight away where I am, I can see what are files and what are folders and ive got the options available immediately for other things such as network devices.
Ok hmm now if i go back into The Gimp to save some more artwork i've spent my day on I... hang on.. this interface is different to the other gnome/gtk ones, why does the gimp have a different file/save dialog ?
Now THAT is productive!
The KDE one is better (and
The KDE one is better (and frankly among the best that Linux has). The Gtk/GNOME one suck. They were better but in an attempt to dumb it down, they've made it harder to use. I've seen better open/save dialog boxes in DOS programs than this!
The KDE one shows you the filesystem, tells you where you are.
That's called common
That's called common controls in Windows, a great idea to implement a standard consistent interface, something Linux hates.
Would be great if GTK and
Would be great if GTK and KDE pulled their heads out and agreed on some common desktop infromation sharing, like the current directory of the last save file.
So you can save a file in The Gimp and then open it in konqueror and be in the same directory