Chad Smith wrote:
On 9/6/06, Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kirill S. Palagin wrote:
> See inline
...
> OK, here is my take on that - only open source products backed by
> established software companies (or at least started from commercial
> products) have usability necessary to penetrate desktop. Let's compare
quite a black-white viewpoint...
But an accurate one
OpenOffice.org - Sun
Firefox/Thunderbird/Mozilla - Netscape then Mozilla Corp.
Linux - IBM / Novell / etc.
What's a "pure" open source project (meaning completely volunteer) that has
eye candy or a high quality User Interface?
inkscape was mentioned. take a look at amarok.
i don't know what you mean by 'linux', i don't think kernel
configuration interface is significant. though a bunch of desktop
components have quite nice user interfaces (liquidweather superkaramba
applet has some small problems, but overall it packs functionality
without overwhelming user), mostly i can talk about kde ones as i am
using kde mostly.
btw, i don't think gimp's ui is that bad... really. mostly it is a
'getting used to' thing. as i have used gimp for some time now, it is
very hard fo me to use applications using traditional approach for
window management.
unless you want to simply praise commercial vendors (or a particular
one), it is easy to get a recent distribution and explore applications
that are available. i am sure developers would be glad to hear about any
problems you encountered. being reasonable and polite helps.
--
Rich
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