http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0219.petreley.html Just came accross this article. The writer very obviously prefers KDE and spends too much time talking about his install woes with Gnome, but there are some useful critizisms of Gnome that we should take a look at. He critizises the lack of consistency in the UI. Toolbars in particular. I know that this is going to be fixed by the code in Egg. But does that code include a standard way to editing toolbars? If it doesn't then it probably should. Also, will the new code pick up the gnome gconf keys for the toolbar style and detachability? The current code doesn't and this can lead to a lot of inconsistency, especially if you choose, for example, to only show icons, some apps will still show text. --- The other obvious consistency issue is the application of the HIG. There seem to be a few people working very well on this. Would it be useful to set up a HIGification project/list? Another thing that would be useful would be to have glade create ui that conforms to the HIG by default. Or to have a HIG mode. --- Another thing he mentions is not being able to find the control center. I couldn't agree with him more. We need to move Desktop Preferences, System Settings and Server Settings out of the Applicaions menu and into their own top level menu. Also a "Control Center" launcher linking to 'gnome-control-center --use-shell' would be useful for people who are used to kcontrol and windows control center. The menus are good for those of us who already know the control center, but for someone browsing for an option the shell is easier to use. He also mentions duplicate menu entries after he installs his debs. This can also be seen with GARNOME on redhat8. A small issue that can be fixed by tweaking the vfolders, but would be nice to protect against it automagically. ---- He also mentions that his start-here icon was missing from the desktop. And because of this he re-installed Gnome 2 or 3 times. If the icon is ment to be there then maybe nautilus should recreate it if it gets removed. Not that this will be an issue when we remove start-here: all together in 2.3 :) Later -- .--= [ MArk Finlay - sisob ] =--. [ Gnome User's Board : www.gnomesupport.org/forums ] [ Public Key: http://evolvedoo.sf.net/sisobatericomdotnet.asc ]
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