Anyone with an interest in app usability and the desktop should take a look at the latest KDE release. The Kubuntu live version is a reasonable source. It is very different indeed. Easy to use once learned, not necessarily instantly inutuitive ways of working. But what is funny is, once you have done something once in their initially uninituitive way, you find it automatic to do it the second time. They took a major risk, one probably no commercial OS supplier would ever take, and but it has, finally, paid off. It is also visually stunning.
There is an article here: http://www.kdenews.org/2009/10/21/kde4-demonstrates-choice-not-usability- problem Here is Aaron Seigo's interesting take: http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/10/comparing-kde-4-and-gnome-3.html The article, and trying the latest KDE, confirmed all my old prejudices - namely, that one size does not fit all, and that the fatal flaw of HIGs is that ease of first use is totally different from ease of continuing use. In fact, that the first usually leads to endless irritation in experience. At least, for this particular user, which is why this is written from Fluxbox with hand edited menus! PCLInux has now finally moved to KDE 4, and they usually have one of the best implementations of stuff for the enterprising ordinary user. Gnome with 3.0 is about to change rather dramatically also. So, all you Rev Unbuntu users, fasten your seatbelts! Peter _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
