On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 09:29:09AM +0100, kpb wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 00:09:45 -0400
> Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
>
> > Cheer up Svante. This isn't for your corporation's web servers, it's
> > for the guy with a desktop, the system's only user, a guy who already
> > has root but just doesn't want to do su all the time, who just wants
> > automounting to happen.
> >
>
> That guy would be me.
>
> I think that xfce4 with automounting enabled will cover most of us desktop/laptop users as a (suggested) default. xfce4 works with 2d or even VESA video and so can work on older machines.
>
> xfce4 can be made to look like Windows XP (panel at the bottom, notifications on the right and applications on a menu on the left) which almost all of my family, friends, neighbours and students are familiar with. That reduces the 'unfamiliarity' of e.g. a laptop handed round a meeting or an old desktop in a cafe for Web surfing.
>

I genuinely don't understand the "familiarity" argument, at all. Any
Windows XP user is able to get around with the OSX GUI in a few hours,
and will probably master it in two days. And the OSX GUI is the
farthest thing you can imagine from Windows XP....

Isn't it that we have been too much concerned about how dumb a dumb
user can be? Or is it just that GNOME, KDE & Co. ended up sucking
really a lot in their psychotic quest to emulate other GUIs instead of
proposing something genuinely new when they had the opportunity to do
so? The last true "revolution" in GUIs was NeXTSTEP, 25 years
ago. What came after was just a plethora of mix-and-match of existing
things...

YetAnotherRant

KatolaZ

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