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. -- Regards, Olav -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
