Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

[Olav Vitters]

On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 03:46:57PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Michael Scherer wrote:
> > Gnome-shell is not mean to be used nor appropriate for a mobile phone.
> > And despite being rather usable on a touch screen ( I tested ), it is
> > still not sufficient there for 1 million of details ( Vincent Untz talk
> > also said the same, see gnome people to see the details ).
> 
> But it is clearly inspired by mobile phone UIs. Why? Phones are not the 
> target, so why copy them? It leads to an interface which is not appropriate 
> for ANY platform. It's not appropriate for mobile phones for the reasons you 
> cite, it's not appropriate for computers because it looks and feels like a 
> smartphone UI, so what IS it appropriate for?

Touch friendliness (but on a laptop / desktop).

> Users of computers have certain expectations of how a user interface looks 
> like, and gnome-shell completely fails to meet those expectations (as do 
> Unity and Window$ 8's "Modern UI" (formerly known as "Metro"), which both 
> suffer from the exact same problem).

In my country smart phones are outselling computers, computer sales are
way down.

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Regards,
Olav