[Design-team] First evaluations after testing Anaconda and Gnome installations F19 TC3

[S.Kemter]

Hi,


the question is, shall someone who sends his password for an mailing list
to the same define how to use an desktop environment?

br gnokii



2013/4/4 Leslie S Satenstein <lsatenstein at yahoo.com>

> I believe that the design team should consider the human aspect of linux
> management or linux use. Future designs could profit from saying, "How do I
> make things easy for system management and for general end-users use of the
> system.
> *
>  Leslie
> *
>
>
> --- On *Thu, 4/4/13, Onyeibo Oku <twohotis at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Onyeibo Oku <twohotis at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Design-team] First evaluations after testing Anaconda and Gnome
> installations F19 TC3
> To: design-team at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Date: Thursday, April 4, 2013, 3:34 AM
>
>
>
> > I thought you may be interested in what I encountered.
> >
> > In my evaluation, I got more negative feelings about Gnome than the
> > 3.6 version. With 3.6 version, for any program not within the
> > favourites bar, it requires 4 mouse clicks to launch.
> >
> > With Fedora 19, Gnome 4.x it takes 7 mouse clicks.  By the way, with
> > Cinnamon, it is 1 mouse click to open the menu, then slide to the
> > appropriate application and click a second time. Done.
> > There is a favourites bar as well on the side, and a second favourites
> > bar on the bottom panel.
> >
> > For a user of the system. Office, browse, email, some installed
> > packages and games, Gnome 4.x is very heavy on using the left mouse
> > button. I ended up with tendonitus and had to quit using Gnome, or
> > suffer major tendon damage (repetitive action damage).  It  is I that
> > had the problem and I cannot say that others will have experienced
> > similar problems.
> >
> > I do have questions about Gnome 4.  What is the difference between
> > Favourites bar contents and Frequent items.  If items are used
> > frequently, they should replace the items in the favourites bar.
> > Frenquent items list is maintained dynamically, and often incorrectly,
> > and the other is a static placement.  Did anyone notice that if an
> > item is in Frequent side of the collection, it is no longer in the All
> > side of the collection.
> >
> > My  major grype with Gnome Desktop is the [:::] (9 sided die)
> > launcher.  Why is it not removed from the favourites bar and placed
> > next to Activities?  Putting it there would save two clicks on the
> > mouse.  With a little logic, it may even be possible to replace
> > Activities by this [:::] launcher.
> >
> > If we look at the Linux users in the world,  the majority of the
> > population writes from left to right. (Arabic, Hebrew, and a few other
> > languages are right to left). Therefore it made better sense to have
> > the favourites bar and the workspace selection on the right side of
> > the desktop presentation.  Why do we have to slide from extreme top
> > left to extreme right to select an alternate workspace.
> > Ergonomical design and how people use the computer to generate output
> > would indicate that there is much to do to improve Gnome.
> >
> > I am trying to be positive about identifying and fixing items that
> > cause Linux users to shy away from Gnome.
> >
> > Regards
> >  Leslie
> >
> > Mr. Leslie Satenstein
> > 50 years in Information Technology and going strong.
> > Yesterday was a good day, today is a better day,
> > and tomorrow will be even better. mailto:lsatenstein at yahoo.com<http://mc/compose?to=lsatenstein@yahoo.com>
> > alternative: leslie.satenstein at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=leslie.satenstein@gmail.com>
> > SENT FROM MY OPEN SOURCE LINUX SYSTEM.
>
>
> Two things:
> (1) I don't anything about Anaconda in that message
> (2) The message has nothing to do with the fedora-design team and
> shouldn't be on this mailing list
>
> Thanks for running Fedora, but it might be more productive to send your
> desktop evalution report to Gnome developers or fedora Desktop Group.
>
> Regards
>
> Onyeibo
>
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