-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Aza dotzler presentation on requirements for Desktop Linux is a relevant > article for what is appealing to the target audience > > http://piercedotzler.com/asa/linux%20%96%20in%20search%20of%20the%20desktop.pdf Rahul, thanks for the link. Unfortunately, we seem to be moving in the same loop of *Why can't my desktop be like Windows ?* Very wrong and not the right way to a good and proper Linux Desktop. Both in this presentation and the blog, the issues mentioned relate mostly to Usability on the Linux Desktop Environments vis-a-vis the Windows UI. The assumption for this hypothesis is that the Windows UI is picture perfect - not true at all. Assuming that there is no real need to clone a Windows UI to make a usable Linux desktop, the real challenge is to enhance learnability. The few deployments of Fedora based LTSP setups that I have been involved with have resulted in one conclusion - given no prior experience of a desktop, the FC/Linux desktop is easily learnt by the end users. On the other hand, anything above Windows98 (and by that one includes a majority of the Government offices in India) causes usability issues in terms of terminal usage/command-line interface, print-tool usage, browser usage (inexperience with tabs) and mail client feature requests. A W2L migration without putting in place a proper study of functional usage normally leads to cribbing (pardon this term, could not find a better word) about the *learning curve*. Regards Sankarshan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQFDAq/N+g4kmZ76nyERAiqlAJYn6vtULg8hXSoNobBAG0gZSIVIAJ0cHb72 JobRYTPrlbTgjcMBDSX4Lw== =+gKc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
