Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 20, 2006 03:41 PM
I was lucky back in 1998 to try SuSE Linux. They already had what I from a user centered perspective would call a common desktop. I could switch between KDE, WindowMaker, Enlightenment, and most if not all the same menu items appeared in each of them. Don't recall if GNOME was available at the time, but it is now.
To the none-technical end-user the differences among window managers/desktop environments are at best skin deep. We (none-technical users) want a simple way to launch our applications and games, find our documents, cut'n paste or drag'n drop. If it's configurable - like window focus under mouse - great, love it, but that's not a primary concern. If it uses DCOP or DBUS or whatever, wonderful, probably really useful too. Unfortunately, the wast majority is not going to care about all that effort put into things they cannot perceive in their daily work.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 20, 2006 03:41 PMTo the none-technical end-user the differences among window managers/desktop environments are at best skin deep. We (none-technical users) want a simple way to launch our applications and games, find our documents, cut'n paste or drag'n drop. If it's configurable - like window focus under mouse - great, love it, but that's not a primary concern. If it uses DCOP or DBUS or whatever, wonderful, probably really useful too. Unfortunately, the wast majority is not going to care about all that effort put into things they cannot perceive in their daily work.
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