On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:26:16 -0500 "Brian J. Murrell" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> dijo: >On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 10:48 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: >> Furthermore, tablet? GNOME 3 is hardly usable on a tablet. >Hardly usable on a desktop and hardly usable on a tablet? What an epic >fail then. I was at least hoping that the poor desktop experience was >a trade-off for an exceptional tablet experience. > >If it's hardly usable on a tablet and hardly usable on a desktop, where >is it usable? I have been reading this thread with some interest, since I recently moved to Xfce as a refugee from Gnome 3. I have little to say regarding usability and preferences, because those are so subjective that my opinion on them would be largely useless to anyone else anyway. I did want to comment on the tablet issue, because it appears that people here have completely misunderstood the reason that Gnome 3 looks sort of like a tablet. It is not so that Gnome 3 will run on a tablet. It is to make Gnome 3 appear comfortable to those who have learned how to use tablets and, to a lesser extent, the newer smartphones. Just about all tablets and the vast majority of smartphones run Android or Apple operating systems, and the GUIs are so similar that the largest Android phone manufacturer (Samsung) is in court with Apple in more countries than I can count. That GUI is very icon-centric, as would be expected of a touchscreen device. Gnome developers are banking on the further proliferation of tablets and smartphones in the marketplace, and their gamble may be well placed. Forget about making a GUI that Windows or Mac users are comfortable with; both those platforms are going to lose market share to tablets, or so the Gnome developers expect. Indeed, tablets may become the entry computer of the future, and when I watch people fiddling with their phones in the mall they are overwhelmingly smartphones with touchscreens. It would not surprise me to see Microsoft and Apple release tablet-like GUIs for Windows and MacOS. It's all about marketing. People will buy what they are comfortable with; people do not want to be challenged (present company excepted). _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
