Re: Suggestions

[Olaf Grüttner <o gruettner tu-bs de>]

> 	* Performance
> 
> 	1. Using GNOME in a 166 MHz MMX Pentium is like using Windows 95 in a 66
> MHz DX2 486. You should test GNOME in slow machines and try to boost the
> performance.
> 

Well said. Although I like gnome, it behaves slow. It shows, when you hit other software on your maschine. Most Gnome-Programs take quite a while, till they show up. Especially programs using components are very slow. (nautilus, evolution, galeon...) They are so slow, I sometimes find them unusable because of this.
(amd 233mhz, 64mb ram) On the other hand, BeOS is very responsive and even plain gtk apps like the rather well written sylpheed email client are very responsive compared to evolution or nautilus...

> 	* Customization
> 
> 	  Customization is nice, but it should be measured with caution. Software,
> when very flexible, tend to cause confusion and be very difficult to use. A
> good example is Sendmail. We must read a 400-page book to (try to)
> understand sendmail.

I think someone at eazle once said that the defaults matter. It is important to have good defaults. And if you´ve got too many options, you can present only a certain part of them like under 
windowmanager => sawfish => Meta => expert...

Greetings
Olaf