Leon Fauster via devel wrote:
> 10 minutes is not enough to do a remodeling of the "familiar"
> experience, so that you reaches the so called realm of intuition.
> The latter is something that we learn over time and the desktop
> environment does not offer this on its own. It provides only a
> framework where this can happen.
But that is exactly the issue with the GNOME design: It is really arrogant
to expect me to unlearn decades of learned familiar experience and retrain
to something completely different that in the end has at most minor
advantages, it is not significantly better, just different.
I want the software to ideally behave the way I am used to (i.e., the way
Windows 95 worked, see below) out of the box, or if not, at least have an
"old-school mode" toggle in the preferences that makes it work that way (and
I will almost certainly use that toggle).
> PS: Imagine the first CLI steps and the corresponding bad
> experience, but we have not given up :-)!
Oh, my first computer was actually an XT clone running IBM PC-DOS 3.3. So I
actually started with a CLI. :-) Then Windows 95 on a Pentium 120 (MHz). And
on that Pentium, I also got started with versions of Red Hat Linux of the
time (not sure what the first one was), first from CD-ROMs bundled with
computer magazines, then the downloadable FTP edition. And I also tried one
magazine CD-ROM with an edition of Caldera "OpenLinux" (which was actually
much less open than RHL, and Caldera eventually became the infamous SCO)
with the at the time brand new KDE 1 (version 1.1.1). Having used DOS, the
bash CLI was not that bad to work with, but the distros at the time already
came with GUI environments (FVWM95, then came KDE 1 and GNOME 1).
Kevin Kofler
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