Le dim 09/03/2003 � 23:07, Austin a �crit :
> > I don't know who it is, but *a lot* of users coming from Windows were
> > having problems with the single click, and they ended up always starting
> > their application twice. I don't think it's an un-bright idea,
> > especially in the corporate environment.
> Well, at the very least, it's a great reason to switch to gnome.  :-)

I'll bite the troll here ;-)

Gnome is a good environment for experienced Linux people, but it lacks a
lot of polish for people coming from the Windows world.

Take the file dialog for example. Tell some corporate users they have to
save everything on the file server, in /mnt/corporate. They'll have to
click on the ".." entry, then they'll get in /home and see all the
users, be confused, and maybe they'll try .. again and then click on
/mnt and then click on /corporate and finally save their stuff at the
right place.

Then look at the KDE file dialog, at the left, you have a nice place
where people can make their shortcuts. Put it in the system wide
configuration, and every user will have a FILESERVER icon that they can
use easily.

Take gnome-ppp versus kppp. gnome-ppp insists on a MRU of 296, and even
if you change the settings, it doesn't use them, the 296 value is
hard-coded into the gnome-ppp binary. This breaks EarthLink, who will
not accept 296 as a valid MRU (that 296 value was valid when everyone
was using 9600 modems BTW).

It's little things, but all these little things add up...

Jean-Michel

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