DrFredC.com wrote: > IMHO, I've never had the time to mess around with handwriting input in the > various touch screen devices I've had. The stylus, screen keypad, or > attached keypad has always worked fine for me. Others, such as yourself, > apparently find the black handwriting work fine. OK, no big -- perhaps when > I get a window of time, I'll give it a try. >
I have notice hand writing appears to work better in OS2008. > As for looks, my first impression of the 2008 home page was, hmm, it's a bit > different -- not many options so far -- oh well. Like most, I've adapted to > it's little quirks and newness. The color schemes aren't as important to me > as improved functionality and I've come to like the option of providing and > switching home page backgrounds to my match my mood. > > Give things some time, and it's likely that more themes may appear that > better suit your tastes. Your habit of continuing to call something that is > new as "ugly" in a largely user supported world (who may generally feel > differently) isn't likely to help your cause. > > Some tablet geekoid, finding a few moments to tweek some code for OS08 has > lots of choices of things to work on -- "I'll spend some time working on > restoring some old themes so some AH can call my work ugly for hardly no > reason" ain't likely to be real high on anyone's list of interesting things > to do... The tablets are largely geek user supported devices -- talk nice to > folks and you might actually get something close to what you want... Either > that, or stop complaining and fix it yourself... then share your work with > the rest of us so we can call it ugly... :) > > BTW, if you really want to experience a new OS that truly sucks, get a copy > of Windows Vista. You'll have plenty of company when it comes to openly > lamblasting MS's newest perversion of an OS. It's basically the world's > largest computer virus -- your next PC comes hopelessly infected right out of > the box... How MS get paid for selling that kind of crap is beyond me... > It's the best thing that's ever happened to Linux and the Mac. > Windows, over the last few versions has had a trend to more "eye candy" at the expense of function. The old style, as in W98 and W2000 was the most functional. On XP systems, the first thing I do is switch to the "classic" desktop. On Linux, I immediately switch from the default SUSE desktop, back to the standard KDE desktop. While it's a nice to have an attractive desktop, many, such as Vista, go to far, so that function takes a back seat to appearance. Then there are the technical issues, which make Windows such a disaster. I don't have a problem if someone wants eye candy. I have a problem when it's forced on people who don't want it. Also, a desktop that's good for beginners will often get in the way of more experienced users. This is a huge problem with Windows. I get frustrated with it, because it gets in the way of what I want to do. So provide eye candy if you want, but please make it optional! -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
