On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 01:19 +0200, Henrik Wejdmark wrote: > My impression is that GNOME3 is trying to compete with Android and FrontRow, > but have forgotten all of us who still uses desktops/laptops. We don't have > touch screens yet.... This is a common misapprehension, but it's not true. The reason for the large icon grid is actually that the developers did real world user research (yes, really!) and found that many people had significant trouble navigating the typical Windows / GNOME 2 nested menu system full of wide-but-short entries. They would lose levels in the nesting by moving the mouse a bit wrong. They would launch the wrong thing because the target area was too short. This was especially pronounced with poor pointing devices - particularly cheap trackpads on cheap laptops. The Giant Grid O' Icons is navigable with a much higher success rate. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
