John Cooper wrote: > It is designed for education and easy learning for someone who has never > used a computer before. It is a very different interface, using a > journal to log task you do and therefore making it easy to go back to.
I have a log on my PC. It's called "Recent Documents". But if my recent documents ran to dozens of pages it would be much less useful. I think you're missing my point though. In usability we can talk about "affordances" [1]. Sugar has none. I cannot work out how to use it because I cannot by looking tell what any particular part of the user interface is supposed to do. Or I guess but I'm frequently wrong. Some of the applications are a lot better than the UI as a whole in that regard. Or another example - 90% of things don't have tooltips. The one or two things that do and which take quite a long time to appear just serve to frustrate you more in the vast majority of situations when you really need them and they aren't there. > I found it difficult at first because of my file based computer use. > I believe the developers have worked hard to create a new UI and the > proof is it is being used and improved. I'm quite sure the developers have worked hard on it. But it's being used because that's what people are being given. It's being improved because there's still money behind it. I don't think that proves anything, and even if the developers have worked hard, they've gone off on some wild tangent. It's often said that most programmers suck at HCI, but at least most programmers know to copy designs that work. You'd have to be pretty arrogant to think that you can design a better GUI than what the entire industry has researched and developed over 30 years. > The hardware design is incredible and > very innovative,making it easy to fix and maintain over the years. I haven't seen the hardware. Dan [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
