On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 14:23 +0200, Les Paul wrote: > 2013/4/3 Trond Husø <tr-huso@xxxxxxxxx>: > Very, very few users are using "help" and "settings" option. Gnome > Shell has included both on a list on the title bar, that makes that > the field "Exit" changes its position from one application to another > (which is an option used by 100% of the users). For example, "Exit" in > Nautilus 3.6 is the 8th option, the 2nd option in Font Viewer, the 7th > in Gnome Documents and the 1st one on all non-gnome applications. You > can solve it just moving these to a general application, and > redistributing the rest of the options. I'm sorry, I just don't get it. I can click the X, I can File->Close, I can keystroke window close. > You can see how iOS or Android applications are evolving. Yes, and those are not desktop platforms. What is good on one platforms does not necessarily transfer to another - they server different purposes. Desktops are for content *creators* while tablets are for content *consumers*. > Options are hidden, and it isn't neccesary a help option. No, it is often awfully horribly painful to find under what menu-button, press-and-hold-widget, etc... some option is ***buried*** on a tablet application. > They are made to be self-explanatory, and complexity is hidden to the > common user. That may be their goal; I do not necessarily accept that they succeed. > Do you need a manual attached to your DVD player permanently? No, it plays DVDs. That is in no useful way equivalent to a desktop. Every day I sit down at my desktop first to discover what kinds of problems I will have to solve today. The DVD player solves one and only one problem - and it is a *consumption* oriented problem. I'm sitting at my desktop *producing* something. Entirely different domain, your analogy is specious. -- Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
