On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, John R.Hogerhuis wrote: > > I'd agree with Mitch. Performance, or for us, UI responsiveness, the most > visible and painful issue being start up time of applications is paramount. My > 4-year old, with no cushy performant computer experience, loses interest in > the > 10 seconds+ it takes to load activities. Even the calculator takes seconds to > load. Actions taken in the photo/video recorder do not sync up with sounds and > are not proximate enough in time to the UI action. > > The second thing is basic UI usability. The pop-around menu border makes the > UI > thoroughly unusable with the trackpad since focus is lost when you get too > close > to the edge. My daughter's frustration level shoots through the roof whenever > this happens. Maybe that is fixed in a recent release, but the fact that the > border pops up when you get anywhere near the edge frustrates my daughter to > the > point that she finds the trackpad is "too hard to use [control]." Pretty much > the laptop is on the shelf right now for that reason.
I agree with this issue, there is a tweak that you can make to the config to disable this feature. I don't have it handy, but if you search a little you should be able to find it. David Lang > Also on UI usability, there are far too many words for a non-reader to use > almost all programs. At one point usability for non-readers was a goal, not > sure > what happened. > > If those two (albeit broad) areas were dealt with the laptop would come back > off > the shelf. > > -- John. > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
