Hi everyone, sorry to start a new thread, but I strongly desire this email will not missed in previous *cough*flame*cough* discussion.
I've recently started helping a man to use and maintain his computer. He was a professor of engineering at university, but he had an ictus some years ago and now he's able to move only his right arm and head. He recently started to use Linux, and we switched from KDE to GNOME 4 weeks ago. We could say he's a "virgin of GNOME"[1]. No bias, no strong interest in GNOME vs KDE vs MacOS vs Win. Just "I want to use this fuc***ng computer". Some days ago he asked me how to enlarge the text on screen, so I showed him the Fonts tab in Appearance preference tool[2]. Then we explored the other options available in this tool. In the (infamous and so hated) Interface tab he found really useful the ability to change the setting for toolbar items, and he chosen to stay with "text only", saying he prefers to read a label then try to figure what an icon means. What's the point of this? Well, firstly report that some people actually use some "weird" setting, secondly that even if unused, some preferences are better to stay in a "visible" place then in a not-yet-available tweak UI or gconf-editor[3]. Someone could need them or, at least, will appreciate their availability and discoverability. When that man used the Interface tab to adjust the setting for himself I was really proud that "my" GNOME Desktop was able to provide something that was useful. I really hope GNOME we'll be able to keep this level of user-friendship. Cheers, Luca. [1] insert a sexist joke here :P [2] OT: this should also tell us that font settings are not immediately discoverable :| [3] another OT: honestly I've a bad feeling with any sort of tweak tool in GNOME. We already have gconf-editor for "real" tweaks, adding a GUI tool to pack options makes me feel we was unable to choose the proper ones and put them in the proper place :( _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
