Re: [Usability]Attempt at constructive criticism - "Why Gnome 2 sucks for me"

[Aleksander Adamowski <olo altkom com pl>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> unusable-for-most-people desktop is fun, then no you won't have fun
> working on GNOME, because the project is not about that. There are
> many projects that _are_ about that, but not GNOME. The purpose of
> GNOME is to broaden the appeal of UNIX/Linux/whatever-you-call-it to
> desktop users.

Then the most needed, critical thing currently is to provide better help 
facility:

   * Full-text search for topics: finds chapters that contain all the
     search terms that user typed, searching for occurences of words
     that begin with characters that comprise search terms, e.g: "Nauti
     icon sca" should find the chapter that describes icons scaling in
     Nautilus (finding words "Nautilus, icon, icons, scale, scaling")
   * Keywords from search terms highlighted in displayed text when you
     go to a topic from a list of search matches;
   * Search for text in currently viewed topic (and highlight found
     matches);
   * Good context-sensitive help everywhere throughout Gnome (Gnome
     core and all Gnome apps):
         o in every dialog box, you can press F1 to get help for task
           associoted with widget that is focused
         o for every drop-down menu item, you can point the mouse at
           it, and press F1 to see its help context


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