ttp://kegel.com/osdl/da05.html#brainstorming Some of the more interesting points:
Q. Siemens did a medium-term usability test. If you try to make your UI look like Windows, they get annoyed if it doesn't actually work like Windows. A. It's not a question of copying the menus; it's a question of "let's not destroy what the users have been doing for the last five years". The X server is a real bottleneck. The graphics subsystem is too slow even on good hardware. This needs to be solved fast. We've even worked with Keith Packard a bit. Keith says: often it's a bad use of the X protocol. There's a lot of application-side rendering going on that should be happening on the server. Too much crap going on in the open source desktop world. Self-inflicted FUD. Projects fighting for a piece of that 2% of market share. (KDE evidently takes a lot of crap from Gnome proponents, but he didn't give any examples.) Supporting both desktops takes a lot of time. We don't have that time! Unless we can figure out how to make it easier to develop for both platforms at the same time, we're in trouble. Q. We need a single platform story! We want e.g. Adobe Acrobat to work very well in both Gnome and KDE. It doesn't right now. -- Kind regards, Jonathan _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
