On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 10:43, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: > All; > I took the opportunity to install 9.1b2 on a PC at home. Just to have a > look around. My first impression when it came up was: > > eeYuck! It's not too bad, I run Keramik on 9.0 (KDE 3.0.3) as I like the layout, I use custom backgrounds, so the delivered one has a very short life span on my system. > Sorry guys, I disliked the look so much, I took it off. > IMHO... It's over the top on eye-candy, and severly lacking in content. > Ok, it's a beta.. I understand that. But IMHO it was still ugly. > > My objection: > > Way to much eye-candy. So much so, that it wasn't sweet anymore. > The fonts suck (IMHO). On my system, they just looked tacky, and made > things hard to read. I couldn't even blame it on missing fonts, because > MDK did the install. So if anything was missing, it's because MDK didn't > install it. The fonts look quite clear to me, I found the fonts in Mozilla 1.3a under 9.1 (both betas) to look horrible, but since Konqueror has tabbed browsing, I just switched to that. > Most of what I used wasn't installed (by default). I didn't even get a > useable e-Mail client. The only thing it installed was Kmail... I had to > dig around to find Mozilla Mail, and install that. I thought I > remembered someone here mentioning that Evolution 1.2 was included with > 9.1.. not so. It ain't on the CDs. Evolution 1.2.1 was on beta 1 but NOT on beta 2... WTF? I installed the 1.2.1 release from the Ximian archives and it ran. > Yes, I understand. It's a beta. It's put out to garner opinions, and to > help track down bugs. But in my case, and IMHO, it was just to ugly to use. > > Mandrake needs to back off the fonts nonsense, and focus on content, not > candy. Without the "eye candy" many Windows users (mainstream users who know how to turn a computer on and click/double-click on the screen) will never give Linux a second look, and IMHO, companies looking a deploying Win2k or WinXP Pro should give it a look. Those in the know, can always turn the eye candy off ;) > The above is just my opinion. Not a statement of fact. There is > therefore nothing above to argue over. It's just an opinion. I thought > Mandrake should hear something besides "Ohh.. ahh.. lookit the pretty > fonts..." Personally, I think it just made it hard to read, and harder > to use. You can look at my review of the beta: http://www.goshko.ca/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=4 -- ...Rob -- "If we put on a unique index we might end up with referential integrity." -- unknown in-duh-vidual ===================================================================== Robert Goshko Axis Computer Consulting Services, Inc President Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada http://www.axis-dev.ca/ Supporting the Revolution In Your World ===================================================================== Registered Linux User #260513 GNU/Linux i686 2.4.20-2mdk-725ca 1:25pm up 5:13, 5 users, load average: 1.62, 1.84, 1.60
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