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

John wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 September 2002 12:12, Jef Spaleta wrote:
> 
>>So how do you successfully balance choice compared to consistency?
>>Ripping out all the kde native apps is certainly too much to sacrifice
>>
> 
> 
> The developers of the major DTEs need to adopt common standards. Those 
> standards should respect the point that about 95% of users of desktop 
> computers run Windows, and so differ from Windows only when there's a clearly 
> good reason to do so.
I've seldom seen a reason to follow windows as an example
of anything good.

> Not everything about Windows is good, I don't think the basic design of the 
> Windows UI is the best around, but the fact is that most people most likely 
> to come to Linux are currently using Windows.

So what about those of us who came to Linux from somewhere else?

Just change it, and make *US* relearn things?
I know where the dialogs are on the apps I use, and I know what
they are for. Nowe you want to change that, to copy some "standard"
M$ set?

I like the fact that not every app in Linux looks/acts the same.
One of the few things I dislike about OpenOffice.org is
the attempt to clone the M$ way of doing things.

	-Thomas