Ubuntu

[Ty Unes]

Would you agree that when explaining Linux desktops to a newbie, one 
could say that KDE is more like Windows and Gnome more like Mac?

Monty J. Harder wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 8:07 AM, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org 
> <mailto:luke at dashjr.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Thursday 13 March 2008, Leo Mauler wrote:
>     > *Default* KDE has:
>     >
>     > 1) A "Start" menu in the lower left corner, which is
>     > very similar to Windows.
>
>     Hm, I wonder why. Obviously, the left is logical for left-to-right
>     languages.
>     Which means that even if we assume there are no other reasons for
>     top/bottom,
>     the choice is between being similar to another common OS and use
>     the bottom,
>     or using the top just to be not Windows.
>     What reasons are there to use the top over the bottom?
>
>
> On my Windows PC for work, I moved the taskbar so it's vertical, 
> putting the Start button at the top.  This way, if I have windows that 
> I've moved such that the title bar (the handle you use to move the 
> thing) is still onscreen, but the bottom/side runs offscreen, it 
> doesn't cover the Start button or taskbar.
>
>
>     Again, only similar to the extent that is logical.
>
>
> There are 5 places that it's very easy to put your mouse cursor:  The 
> four corners of the screen, and where it already is.  The four edges 
> provide more places that are fairly easy to get to, as the Mac's "mile 
> high menu" attests.  Good GUI design puts the things you want to get 
> to the most often in the four corners, with the most frequent in the 
> upper left (right for RTL languages) corner, second in the lower left, 
> third in the upper right, and fourth in the lower right, and puts 
> popup dialog boxes wherever your cursor already is, with the cursor 
> positioned over, the choice that won't break anything if you 
> accidentally click it.
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