[64studio-devel] General usability

[Daniel James]

Hi Tim,

> On 64studio upgrades, could you stop re-setting the GDM theme?

You're right, if people set their own theme, then that choice should be 
acknowledged. I'll open a ticket.

> Do you need a formal bug report for this?

Anyone subscribed to the 64studio-devel list can post Trac tickets via 
http://64studio.com/login using the same email address and password set 
when they joined the list (it's in the welcome message, or you can ask 
for a reminder of your password from Mailman).

> I think we could quite easily argue that 64studio provides 
> the best potential upgrade path from WindowsXP now.

Naturally, I agree :-) However, we distributors shouldn't take all the 
credit; a lot of the ease-of-use features you mentioned, like the 
automatic importing of photos from a digital camera, are created 
upstream. We do our best to make sure these features actually work as 
expected though.

I haven't had much chance to try Vista yet, because no-one I know has 
bought a copy ;-) I think Vista will creep in slowly, only as people buy 
new PCs and laptops.

I have had the chance to try recent OS X releases, and to my surprise, I 
didn't find the interface all that easy to use. Objects kept sliding 
around, and off the edge of the desktop - most disconcerting. I actually 
think System 7/8/9 was more intuitive, although it did have some 
dumb-ass features. Like: dragging a floppy into the wastebin ejected it, 
instead of deleting the files on it. I don't think we'd expect anyone to 
believe that ;-)

Cheers!

Daniel