He's Right! It's the little things that are vexing
Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 03, 2003 06:49 PM
Many people have gotten accustomed to using certain things on windows that are sorely missed when moving to Linux. For years I have been setting up Windows desktops for people and by default the mouse wheel button is set to (back) navigation. This simple setting is not available in Linux. When my Linux prospects learn about it, their response is "How long before you fix that?" They see it as broken. I've tried to use mouse emulation, then assign alt+ back arrow to the wheel button but it doesn't work for me. This is a small thing, or is it? It represents the fundamental way they navigate on their PC's and it's a deal breaker. The other most vexing thing is the media player GUI's. No matter how perfectly they may perform, if the GUI is unruly it's useless. I'm talking about the DVD Player style GUI which acts like a collection of Java pop up ads with microscopic fonts.(I guess Mr. cataracts never needs to watch a video) and the auto zoom function that can't be turned off. The gui window (with the movie inside it) needs to open at the same place, at the same size and it should be able to maximize and go full screen, with an attachable playlist. As an example of how it should be done: Check out the screen shots of Oeone distro's Media player (I think it's based on Xine) When in window mode, this player has the video and playlist within the one peice GUI window. Their skin sucks but the layout is the best I've ever seen, Windows included. Will somebody please fix these things. I'm very close to being able to feel good about moving people to linux. But these two points are deal breakers.
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He's Right! It's the little things that are vexing
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 03, 2003 06:49 PMAs an example of how it should be done: Check out the screen shots of Oeone distro's Media player (I think it's based on Xine) When in window mode, this player has the video and playlist within the one peice GUI window. Their skin sucks but the layout is the best I've ever seen, Windows included. Will somebody please fix these things. I'm very close to being able to feel good about moving people to linux. But these two points are deal breakers.
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