Re: why I don't use GNOME

["Michael T. Babcock" <mbabcock fibrespeed net>]

> > A) People's eyes move in from the lower left usually ... so defaults
> > should be there, but ...
>
> Also if you do not use a Western languaje?

Someone (ahem) disagreed with me here, but all the scientific evidence I've
seen is that when people blink, they (almost) always scan from lower left to
center.  When new objects appear, people usually blink ... they may not pay
much attention to the lower left, but that's where their eyes pass (if they
blink -- lots of computer users don't do that much ;-).


> Uuum, what if all this things can be toggle via: Use MacOS | Windows |
> whatevere style. I think if changes match as a group and do not
> interfere with other things, the better, like GTK+ and wm themes, each
> one its own, all happy and more user base. OK, somebody will raise
> that too much configuration is bad, but I guess that are the reason
> for user levels (some GNOME apps already do this, like Nautilus) and
> extensibility (some too, like Sawfish).

Besides "feature creep" reasons, Apple has already won "look and feel"
patents, so I wouldn't do that ;-)

> BTW, about all this keycombo madness, please do not shot any one with
> weird settings, mainly cos people can have keys "moved", like Ctrl to
> CapsLock, or Meta to Alt (so rare symbol keys work as Hyper). Sawfish
> took a nice approach: define an alias (W), and configure it once
> (Alt-Ctrl, or Hyper, or anything you want).

This is the same approach Enlightenment has (the old keybinding applet was
very nice for adding new keystrokes -- just hit the keys on the keyboard to
tell it what you want).

> > I may have a copy, or I may not (Apple doesn't want anyone to have it
> > ... )... E-mail me.
>
> A copy of what?

Of the Enlightenment eMac theme.

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