useability issues

[sun <as387 yfn ysu edu>]

a while ago there was a request for someone to set up a website
specifically for checking gnome for useability issues. i am not here to
fulfill that since i lack both webspace and time to compile gnome from
cvs often, but i do use gnome as my daily desktop environment and for
evangelizing linux to the masses. consequently i do have a few items i'd
like to put out there for general consumption, mastication, pondering,
and mulling. (need a few more synonyms?)

1. perhaps this can make the gnome-games release: in the minesweeper
clone, there needs to be more contrast between cleared blocks and
uncleared blocks. the shades of grey currently used are too similar,
making it hard to tell the difference. this simple fix coupled with
tigert's terrific smiley-faces would make gnome mines the minesweeper of
choice for those of us who have heated minesweeper tournaments during
the slow moments at work.

(did i say i didn't have time to compile gnome from cvs, then confess to
conducting minesweeper tournaments at work?) =]

2. the ppp dialer applet must have the ppp scripts configurable. none of
the distributions i've used (all two of them!) put "ppp-on" and
"ppp-off" in /etc/ppp/ by default; in fact, even the ppp-howto says to
put them in /etc/ppp/scripts/. at any rate, this should be configurable
so that even people who call their dialup scripts "billyjoebob" and
"carriemargaret" respectively can use the applet as well.

i have more issues to point out too, so if anybody has put up that
website, please give us a url. i'd love to get involved. who knows;
maybe some of the complaints i have have already been fixed in cvs while
i was playing minesweeper.
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time and time again, and betrayed their trust. Since he has admitted 
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term; the only possible solution is for the president to save some
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and resign." -12th Congressional District hopeful William Jefferson 
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