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Gnome and XGL

09.02.2006 19:24

While I agree that these videos look really great and all I think GNOME developers should really take John Williams' proposal seriously.

Making "an intuitive and attractive desktop" isn't only about removing some buttons from dialog boxes and reordering the rest. A usable desktop is also a desktop in which you don't have click through a couple of error messages before you can begin working.

Such a desktop also doesn't replace a working PDF viewer with a broken one just because the latter is "simpler and more convenient".

Compare a PDF document in Gnome 2.10:

with the same document in Gnome 2.12:

Posted by Tomaž | Categories: Life
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