* Ben Rockwood ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > My persona fav is: > " All I have to say about Enlightenment is that it's unusable. Visual > Usability is really thrown out of the window in favor of eye candy. Now, > if the target of these developers is to simply research the "coolness" > of things, then E is a great, fun project. If their target is real life > end users though, E --the way it looks and behaves today-- is useless. " > > Insidently, this comment was made by the Editor-in-Cheif of OSNews > (Eugina). The wonderful thing about this comment is that I think most > of us would agree that DR16 (obviously what she refers to) the thing > that really keeps you running E isn't the eye candy but the easy of > interaction and simple yet powerful management in the real world! > Really, she's got it all completely backwards. When these people say > "it's not like GNOME/KDE" in terms of feel/functionality, I think they > really mean "It's not as restrictive as Win32". We offer everything you > could want and more. These sorts posts are just amazingly daft, and I > wish we could find a way to stomp this stuff out.
This is a very interesting comment, and somehow it seems to be characteristic of something that is deeply ingrained in the common psyche. We somehow need to send the message that the great thing about E is that you choose how much eye candy you want (and one can get a lot of cool looking things), without sacrificing any usability (one thing I love about E is the number of common actions I can do without using the mouse). The problem is that my crispy-looking winter-based non-sexy desktop (consisting of a gkrellm with either some Eterm running mutt, a big gvim split in many ways, or a firefox with too many tabs loaded, depending on the desktop) is not good screenshot material. And it's not easy to visually convey the fact that this setup just works (tm). Maybe we could have some "testimonials" of people explaining their setups, which would both show how configurable E is, and be some kind of simple tutorials. I'd be definitely ready to write something like this for mine. Alan Schmitt -- The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. .O. ..O OOO
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