On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 01:35:28PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 05:34:04PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > Or even showing them at all (certainly last time I bothered to look at > gnome 3 it seemed to think buttons on windows were mostly to be avoided). > > > People who are so afraid of new stuff to learn that they won't even figure > > out how to close a window are not Gnome's (or XFCE's, for that matter) > > target audience.
They may well not be Gnome's target audience. We should not inflict Gnome on them. > > If you want that, install KDE and tell it to use one of the > > let's-mimic-Windows/MacOS themes. > > xfce is perfectly useable to most people by default. > > All I personally expect from a window manager is: > > Be able to launch programs (ideally using alt+F2) > Be able to resize the window using the edge of the window > Have a maximize/restore button > Have a minimize button > Have a close button > (These last 3 should also show up when I hit alt+space, because well I > have used that keystroke on many systems for over 20 years to do that). > > That's it. I don't need any more than that. Gnome 3 failed that out > of the box. It looks as if Lennart Sorensen is not in Gnome's target audience. But I'd say he is definitely in Debian's target audience. -- hendrik > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140811174220.gb5...@topoi.pooq.com