On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Steve Underwood <steveu(a)coppice.org> wrote:
I have FC15 on three machines with different hardware - different
CPUs,
different graphics hardware. As installed, all three were kinda OK.
After recent updates all three now take about 5 seconds to change
windows. A warning box popping up is a minimum 10s activity - 5 seconds
to appear, and 5 to dismiss it. I find it hardware to believe I have
three special case machines which all hit the same obscure bug. How can
you call this a productive environment?
I don't see anything like this at all. (I don't see bizarre jumping
windows either.) Have you tried logging in as a new user to make sure
there's nothing in your config affecting things? It definitely
sounds like a bug to chase down.
> In my opinion, Fedora should be aimed at "power users"
> not "newbies".
Aiming a desktop at one group of users, rather than the general case,
is
a weird choice. Its like stating clearly that you wish to remain in
obscurity, and never build the critical mass momentum to really get
anywhere.
I'm talking about all Fedora users and developers, who should know
their way around Linux already. Let the newbies run CentOS, and give
_them_ a stripped down version of GNOME 3 if that's what they prefer.
(However, I think even they should be offered a complete and visible
learning curve.)
They broke the mouse, so the answer is more shortcuts? What about
fixing
what was broken as a better alternative?
I'm not talking about shortcuts to work around a mouse bug (missed
that part of the thread). I'm talking about eliminating mouse use
completely. I want to do everything from within emacs and its shells,
because it's so much faster than GUI-based machinations. That said,
nice GUIs are fun, pretty, great for newbies, and they can provide a
nicely graduated learning curve, eventually getting out of the way
when done right.
Bugs should simply be fixed.
- jos
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