GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

Posted Dec 27, 2005 23:05 UTC (Tue) by quintesse (guest, #14569)
In reply to: GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition by cventers
Parent article: GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

"why isn't it immediately evident that I can type a location?"

OMG!!! Do you know how many times I screamed at that stupid dialog because I thought I couldn't enter a location?

I positively hate hidden functionality and think all GUIs should be "discoverable" which means that you should be able to learn at least 99% of its functionality just by "looking around".

I find that most of the time for me Gnome either does not have the functionality I want or they have hidden it so well that even I as a very experienced user can't find it.

But it's not only Gnome, I love Firefox for example but I still miss some of the settings that you could find in the Mozilla preferences. I want a button "Trust me, I know what I'm doing" that show me all those option pages they removed! (And please, do NOT tell me about about:config!!)