On Wed, 2014-04-09 at 12:56 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Ghislain Vaillant writes ("Re: Debian default desktop environment"): > > Users do care about visual identity (or call it brand > > recognition if you like), and currently XFCE in Debian does not have > > any, I am afraid. > > My experiences with less-sophisticated users are the opposite. They > don't give a flying fuck about "brand recognistion" or "visual > identity". They don't even seem to care very much about whether it's > pretty.
Possibly. So many different users, so many opinions. My personal experience (work colleagues + close relatives, most of them being first time switchers) is that they do. > What they care about is being able to easily do whatever they wanted > to use a computer for. Mostly, that means that the UI should be > similar to other systems they're likely to have used (so they don't > have to learn anything), and it should be easy to find how to do > things. Which GNOME 3 classic mode does for me, being used to GNOME 2 before. That's probably why Red Hat chose it as default to ease the transition from RHEL 6 to RHEL 7. I have also tried my best to dig in the GNOME 3 way, and eventually succeeded with a bit of efforts, but respect and understand people who cannot get used to it. My vote would be on GNOME 3 classic for now, but XFCE with sensible and visually appealing defaults would do it for me too. Ghislain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1397127970.22857.18.camel@lat644-lap