--- Em sex, 9/11/12, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: > De: Bruce Dubbs > Assunto: Re: [blfs-support] Latest news in GNOME world > Para: "BLFS Support List" > Data: Sexta-feira, 9 de Novembro de 2012, 19:51 > Armin K. wrote: > > > As someone said, GNOME isn't a desktop, it is a > research project. > > LOL. > > > I wasn't using KDE till this year, but it seems that > they are going and > > still go in correct direction - listening to the users > (at least up to > > some point). > > > > And as I've read somewhere, GNOME 3.10 or 3.12 might > actualy become > > GNOME 4 and it will be used for GNOME OS - an operating > system mostly > > for touch devices. > > Perhaps we are a pivot point in the PC computing > field. All the touch > stuff in phones and tablets is the 'in' thing but, in my > opinion, the > touch stuff is for someone who is only interested in reading > email and > web pages or watching videos.
Add facebook and twiter addiction. > The finger is a terrible > input device. > It's slow and clumsy. It looks cool, but it's very > limited. I have got a tablet just for mail and for monitoring the PC's work when I am in bed watching TV. It is useful, but more than that, it is hateful. Anything more elaborated, such as copy/paste or even selecting text, is terrible to do, the characters are microscopic (I always remember Ken, when my eyes get tired). I have lost many battles trying to do these things. > On the other hand, the typical workstation does what most > people want > for work: spreadsheets, composing emails, programming, etc > as well as > everything else the phones and tablets do. It really > doesn't need a lot > of design changes. The only real changes needed are > incremental; at > least until we get to real artificial intelligence. Or commercial quantum computing. []s, Fernando -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
