Power keyboarding is fine. I power keyboard a lot of things, however, my Mom, Grandma, Father and brother do not power keyboard anything, they do not even know they are using Linux.
Keep Min/Max in Gnome for mothers everywhere... Chris... On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Chris Louden <ch...@chrislouden.com> wrote: > I know I'm not the only 'power' keyboard user in the group. Many of us > alt+tab or superkey+(whatever) to get around. I'm completely fine with > the removal. Min/Max is just old-old school way to do things. > > -Chris > > > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 11:06 AM, John R. Hogerhuis <jho...@pobox.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Jeff Lasman <jpli...@nobaloney.net> wrote: >>> On Tuesday, March 08, 2011 12:12:08 am Chris Penn wrote: >>> >>>> I think this is nuts, I use minimize all the time; Am I the only one? >>> >>> I agree with you. Another reason why I'm at the moment sticking with the >>> problematic kde. >>> >>> Of course his email doesn't address the real reason (in my opinion): they >>> don't want it to look in any way like MS Windows. >>> >>> Jeff >> >> Or maybe they just want the real estate back and remove confusion for >> newbies when their window disappears due to accidentally clicking >> minimize. >> >> It's nice that they are thinking outside the box in improving the UI. >> I'm fairly sure users could live without minimize but it is a shift in >> thinking. >> >> As the email states, there is no minimize when everything is full >> screen. You just switch windows. This is fast becoming the dominant >> mode of accessing computers if you think about mobile devices. >> >> On the desktop there are full screen and tiled window managers that >> obviate minimize. You can use desktop switching which is much more >> efficient once you get used to it. >> >> Minimize is slow for most users since you have to visually find the >> button which is window relative. Always somewhere different. But >> desktop switcher is always in the same spot. >> >> I'm not saying they should do it, but it's not immediately apparent >> that it's a terrible idea, and it has some things going for it. >> >> -- John. >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> LinuxUsers@socallinux.org >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
