[OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

[Warren Samples]

On 03/25/2012 12:38 PM, Richmond wrote:
> I have spent some time playing around with PearOS,
> and can honestly say "it sucks";


I installed the latest version, Comice OS 4, and gave it only a quick 
look. While I don't mind if someone likes it, I wouldn't recommend it to 
anyone, especially with hopes that it might an easy transition from OS 
X. Choosing Comice Classic at login, I did have a working dock with 
icons which included "Finder" so finding my home folder was a cinch. The 
Dock icon set mysteriously changed at some point and I could not find an 
obvious way to do that deliberately. Beyond that, the control center 
made me feel mostly like there was little I could do to take control. 
The software center seems very easy to "get", though, and that's a big 
plus. The UI has with good snap, but in the end, a lot of simple basic 
stuff is not intuitive for the new user. I think even less than most of 
the more traditional flavored DEs.

I also discovered that my unmodified install is useless with Livecode, 
which is Pete's interest. There are all kinds of problems with 
characters in scripts. you can't use "/". Quotes are treated literally 
as in:

put "something" into tAnything; put tAnything

returns "something" with the quotes. If someone can tell me what's the 
likely cause, I'd be interested to know :D Even more interested in 
knowing how to remedy it.

It was only a cursory look. I've never liked the stock OS X Dock and 
always ran it without 3D, reflections and animations and set it out of 
the way in the lower left corner, so this was definitely not a positive 
feature for me, but that's a matter of taste. That said, this distro has 
some real drawbacks in my opinion. Pete, this is not the best choice. 
Sorry to have brought it up.

Warren