On 2017-08-01 08:28, [email protected] wrote:
Who should I write to in order to politely express my frustrations about all of the many other changes and "features" that I wish they would allow users to choose whether or not to "opt in" to instead of making them default and forcing them on us?
This is everywhere now, and getting worse. I think it's because programmers and designers can decide how things should be, and what they envision is not necessarily what users need.[0] MacOS and iOS were particularly bad about this, and the problem has spread to the open source world.
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with Mint 18, I cannot get back to the nice, clean, simple, straightforward list that Mint 17 had: http://www.upquick.com/temp/launcher.jpg
I am not sure this is available in KDE 5.
Also, Mint 18 now has a really goofy looking "start" button on the bottom left of the panel [...] I wish there was a way I could change that
This, at least, should be doable. Right-click the launcher icon, go to "application launcher settings", there should be an "icon" button showing the bad launcher icon. Click that button and pick out a better one from the KDE standard "pick an icon" dialog box. At least this is how it works on Gentoo's KDE 5.
Then there is the annoying gold cashew [...] Why do they insist on forcing these things on us?
Because the people who think there's One True Way Of Doing Things are over-represented in the design and software development?
[0] Back in 2009 or so, they had a bunch of users come in to the building and try to use a prototype set of web pages that some people had built. We took notes on what worked, what didn't, what the users liked, and what they hated. Nothing really *happened* because of this, but it showed somebody was trying to do the right thing.
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