On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 11:53:32 +0200 Alan Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words:
> * 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 Wow, this Eugina person must be a moron. When I started using Linux many, many moons ago, I played with all the WMs in the distro. It took me about 4 days to decide that E was the way to go and I have never looked back. "Visual Usability is really thrown out of the window" . . . What the hell is "visual usability" anyhow. I hit ctrl+alt+m, GIMP starts up, I make pretty pictures. What the hell else is a WM suppose to do? Bog down your sound/video cards? Crash every 3 hours? Have icons all over the place so you can click on the little pictures? Not like I really need to say this. I'm preaching to the congregation, but still. I'm not usually one to get worked up over stuff like this, but that quote was just too sickening for me to stand. BTW, I recently installed Entrance and just wanted to say that it, like all which is E, kicks ass. Thanks to all you developers and bug testers for your hard work. Adrian -- On The Fly Photography -:- Creation From Chaos On The Fly Photography: http://204EastSouth.com Purchase from On The Fly: http://www.cafepress.com/onthefly ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
