Hi All,
I am a semi literate computer user who is working to promote FOSS alternatives to proprietary solutions. I use PcLinuxOs and Ubuntu as they are the most user friendly distributions and I am able to serve much of my computing needs with these FOSS solutions. I find my ability to convince those with less knowledge then me to follow hampered by seemingly unimportant stuff. One such difficulty is the absence of a tick box in Gnome preventing users from accidentally sliding panels around. Its absence makes it impossible to set up Ubuntu for non technical users. I frequently find myself dragging panels around by accident, to me they are just an irritant but to less interested computer users it means that the computer is broken. I am being called on to fix the computers of family members who are serving as Ubuntu usability guinea pigs, telling them to drag the panel back into place is to much of a technical challenge. They just do not care about computers and they are resisting any attempts I make to get them to understand a tiny bit more about the tools they are using. Gnome being "almost there" in the usability stakes does not cut it with this unsympathetic crowd. I am passing this observation on to you so that you can pass it up the command chain. It is a marketing problem that can easily be solved. ( I am now in the process of installing Pessulus but a "lock panel position" tick box in the panel properties page, is what is really needed.) Yours Albert Roy -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
