inode0 wrote: > On Dec 27, 2007 10:21 AM, <Karoliina.T.Salminen at nokia.com> wrote: > >> One of the major changes in the desktop has been incorporating composite >> effects into it, thus to make it more appealing to the eye. And in my opinion, it looks >> much better than the previous version, but that is just my personal opinion. At least >> our team (see hildon-desktop ChangeLog for more details from stage.maemo.org >> svn) did a lots of work to enable eye-candy composite effects that were thought to >> be technologically not possible on the platform before. >> > > Karoliina, > > When I first flashed the new desktop on my N800 I was really taken by > surprise. I wasn't prepared for such a dramatic change but it only > took a very short time using it for me to quickly grow to like it very > much. > > There are plenty of people out here who appreciate the effort that > went into producing this desktop and appreciate the bold change even > if it took them by surprise initially. The improvements in the desktop > appearance from the original N770 release to the current OS2008 > release are quite impressive. > > I don't have a problem with people wanting it. I have a problem with it being forced on people who don't want it. I would have been nice if a bit of effort had been put into allowing the scroll bar to be moved to the left side, so that left handed people don't have to scroll blind. There's a world of difference between eye candy and functional improvement. Incidentally, a couple of years ago while working in computer support, I had to ask a user to change her desktop colours, to something less irritating (she had pale green and lilac or similar), so that I could work on her computer. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org>
