This is a preemptive counterpost

This is a preemptive counterpost

Posted Feb 17, 2005 23:27 UTC (Thu) by Tobu (subscriber, #24111)
In reply to: This is a preemptive counterpost by b7j0c
Parent article: The Lightweight experience:A comparison of Window Managers (Linux Times.Net)

Right, here is what the invisible hand of my (gnome) desktop is doing for me every day:
- antialiasing everywhere
- internationalisation everywhere
- consistent settings management: one place to change the proxy, the audio device and its mixer channel, the font, its size and rendering, the toolbars text, the preferred browser, all with instant-apply
- accessibility (though it is disabled)
- unified bookmarks in the file system, in file dialogs and on the panel
- consistent keyboard shortcuts
- mime associations
- access keys
- most important: hig consistency

Thanks to freedesktop.org, most of this could work cross-desktop too. The problem is, small desktop environments do not have the ressources to enable this, or don't think of all of these small things you never fully use.

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