[64studio-devel] General usability

[tim hall]

Daniel James wrote:
> 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.

Thanks. :)

>
>> 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).

Got it. Added slightly useless comment to #293 as a test.

>
>> 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.

Yes, it's the adoption of soundjuicer and gthumb as defaults that has 
made my last two desktop experiences so good. Plain Debian etch isn't as 
user-friendly as this, I wouldn't recommend a plain Debian install to 
any of my non-geek friends. In fact the stable release of 64studio is 
the first Linux distro I feel confident to suggest without reservation. 
I say that's a win. :)

>
> 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 ;-)

Yeah, Macs have always done stuff like that, you have to drag your 
camera to the waste bin before unplugging the USB connection too. Only 
Linux lets you hot-unplug USB devices without complaining.

Yeehaar!

tim
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