Article in PC Magazine relating to OS UIs
- From: David Grega <webmaster overtech zzn com>
- To: "'gnome-gui-list gnome org'" <gnome-gui-list gnome org>
- Subject: Article in PC Magazine relating to OS UIs
- Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 17:10:57 -0500
I was reading the December 19, 2000 issue of PC Magazine and on page 95
Bill Howard goes on to list some somewhat obvious things the industry as a
whole should do. I found a few that would relate to what we do here at the
Gnome UI design committee and are worth considering.
There are 20 items but only a few relate to us, those that relate to us are
listed below (plus or minus a few typos):
"7. When you automatically tile multiple applications (by right-clicking on
a blank spot on the Taskbar), why can't the individual apps realize they'll
have less screen real estate and offer to get rid of the space-hogging
scroll bars and toolbars?
8. And why can't you have presets that let you give, say, two-thirds of the
screen to your word processor and one-third to e-mail, as opposed to always
giving each tiled app exactly the same amount of space?"
"12. When you're hurriedly doing e-mail online at dial-up modem speed, why
is it that your finger always brushes F1 (help) when you mean to hit the
Esc key-and instead of being able to back out with Esc or Ctrl-Break you
have to wait an agonizing half-minute until help comes up?"
"19. Have you ever owned a non-Windows 2000 PC or notebook where Suspend
and Resume worked properly for more than a couple of weeks?"
Item 12 is interesting to me. Why don't we have an Esc key shortcut to
abort the launching of any program (in that case a help file) from opening?
Item 19 hits home with me. Though I don't know if this is a problem within
Linux or Gnome - the fact remains, while using Gnome - Suspend and Resume
tend not to work correctly.
- Dave
Any opinions stated are personal and not those of OverTech Technologies
(OTTech)
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