We need to show some good designers the awesome power of The Gimp to entice them over to Linux, and get them to pump out interfaces for us. ;-)
On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 07:20, Magnus Hedemark wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Jeff Tickle wrote: > > > Call me crazy, but I'm convinced that we seriously have a chance to make > > a specifically user-friendly distribution of Linux. > > These have been around for years. Corel Linux was, IMO, the first. These > days I think Novell SuSE Linux 9.1 takes the prize. Put a complete newb > in front of SuSE 9.1 (after it is already installed, as this is what most > Windows users would experience also). Then put the same person in front > of XP. See if they think one is particularly easier to use than the > other. > > The OS itself has gotten pretty slick. Linux is hurting badly on the > application front. We have a zillion apps but many of these are half > finished (or feel that way, anyway), and few are as easy to use out of the > box as your average commercial Windoze or Mac app. I think that the KDE > guys are making it easier to make applications friendly by abstracting a > lot of the user interface into the API so applications have a consistent > look & feel within KDE. > > Part of the problem, IMHO, is that FOSS is usually lead by programmers, > who are more often than not lousy at UI design. There is a natural > resistance to non-programmers giving any sort of direction in application > design. This is one of the major downsides to the Open Source development > model. -- Jeff Tickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> JTSoft.net -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
