I thought I'd forward this here for discussion as it seems to be more "on- topic" here than in the regular Fedora Users' list. :-) I think the OP has some good points. That being said, I don't use NM much, once I've got a system configured. On the other hand, I think that something akin to the classic Windows XP "Control Panel" interface is a bit more "intuitive" at least for those of us who have to use/support Windows on a regular basis. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: In praise of Windows Date: Fri June 11 2010, 8:59:03 am From: Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org Am I alone in finding the old (classic) Windows XP control panel greatly superior to the KDE analogue? I find Windows' My Computer much better than any Fedora counterpart, too. The network interface through the "Connect to" icon is also more intelligible than the NM interface, in my view. On the whole I find Fedora/KDE much pleasanter to use than Windows, which I suppose I use about 5% of the time. In particular I find if something goes wrong in Windows it is far more difficult to correct. But there are several features where Windows wins, as I have suggested. I hope the Fedora/KDE developers look carefully at Windows, to see what they can steal. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- users mailing list users at lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines -----------------------------------------
