Re: A Brief Comparrison of Gnome 2.2 & KDE 3.1

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>]

ugh, wrong bug number, I was refering to:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104549

Christian

On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 20:27, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:
> Another article from Petrolley ;)
> 
> Anyway I think UI consistency have to low priority in GNOME. I mean when
> Owen thinks merging a 2 line patch is a waste of time. A patch that a
> developer have made and submitted in order to fix a toolbar consistency
> issue.  Then it do say a lot of how important we consider GUI
> consistency to be in GNOME2.
> 
> Christian
> For info about patch see:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106684
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 15:15, MArk Finlay wrote:
> > 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
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Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>