Re: [Usability] A New Start Menu Design, which resemble windows

["Long Gao" <imgaolong gmail com>]

OK, if I learned anything good from Windows, and Windows learned that good thing from others, then I am learning from others. That doesn't matter too much. Windows is no more than a hybrid of lies and commercial successes. I respect Apple, Nokia, they are really great innovative companies.

 

I used Mac Book air for a time, but could not find a powerful start menu, though its context sensitive main menu is quite innovative, so I could not learn anything about a start menu from MacOSX.

 

Opponents, I mean, should be the providers to give us the way to defeat them.

 

Thanks for your advises, it's so good, I will always going on to be a faithful supporter of GNOME.

 

2008/10/24 Karoliina Salminen <karoliina t salminen gmail com>

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Long Gao <imgaolong gmail com> wrote:
> From the point of my view, I always want to find some good ideas from
> Windows, which I thought was totally a mistake:). The start menu might be a
> difference.

I don't think you should be looking for good ideas from Windows.
Windows is not the place where the innovation happens. Windows usually
copies what Apple (MacOSX) and others have innovated first.

So in my opinion there would be other places to look at for innovation
for desktop:
- MacOSX
- Nokia Internet tablets (N810 for example, the size constraint drives
innovation), the hildon-desktop is open source.
- Apple iPhone

I don't think Gnome should be made to function like Windows (that
would be lame), Gnome should be innovated to be a lot better than
Windows on all areas. The bar should be really high, and not on the
level of imitating Windows.

Best Regards,
Karoliina Salminen
http://karoliinasalminen.wordpress.com