Re: UI design [was Owen Taylor's paper]

On Wednesday 18 September 2002 05:39, Jef Spaleta wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 17:14, Gerald Henriksen wrote:
> > Of course the ultimate irony is that it is the Red Hat backed Gnome
> > project that has caused this UI problem for Red Hat by choosing a UI
> > standard that is opposite of everything else in use on Red Hat Linux
> > (Motif, KDE, Java, and Windows apps under Wine).
> 
> Are you saying the gnome UI design is bad in and of itself..is is it bad
> because its not like everything else.  Does the oppositeness of how
> GNOME's UI works solve some problems that the other more common way of
> doing things can't?  
 
I will say it. It's bad because it's different from everything else.


There are differences that exist, signficant differences, that do not solve 
problems.

The ordering of buttons on dialogues is a good example, and that's expecially 
bad because it's not even consistent with itself.

These differences mean users, especially experienced computer users moving 
between machines and (maybe) operating systems will make errors because of 
those differences.

Remember that not everyone does as many of us have, move from Another OS (OS/2 
in my case) to (almost) exclusively using Linux.

I well remember OS/2 users cursing MS for changing the definition of 
ControlAltDel - many times they rebooted their OS/2 machines, sometimes 
servers, because they failed to remember those differences.





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