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Off-Topic: Original GUI Goals

Off-Topic: Original GUI Goals

Posted May 19, 2004 20:35 UTC (Wed) by tjc (guest, #137)
In reply to: Off-Topic: Original GUI Goals by dskoll
Parent article: The Spatial Way

Alas, even XFce has become tainted and follows stupid Windoze-inspired GUI design ideas. I'm coasting along on the excellent XFCE 3.8.18 with no plans to upgrade.

Yeah, 4.x was a disappointment in some ways. I like the way you can toggle the "desktop" menu in 3.x without moving the mouse. In 4.x the menu gets mapped under the pointer, instead of next to it, so you have to move the mouse a wee bit to cancel it. A half dozen small changes like this make 4.x somewhat irritating to use.


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