"I would have been nice if..." I wish you in New Year to be less ego-centric, scream less, instead do more, and find something that may make you happy. Mate, OS2008 is linux based, if you don't like something - do it yourself or if your knowledge is limited, *ask* nicely and I'm pretty sure someone will make it for you sooner or later.
all the best Pit On Dec 27, 2007 4:58 PM, James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > inode0 wrote: > > On Dec 27, 2007 10:21 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> One of the major changes in the desktop has been incorporating > composite > >> effects into it, thus to make it more appealing to the eye. And in my > opinion, it looks > >> much better than the previous version, but that is just my personal > opinion. At least > >> our team (see hildon-desktop ChangeLog for more details from > stage.maemo.org > >> svn) did a lots of work to enable eye-candy composite effects that were > thought to > >> be technologically not possible on the platform before. > >> > > > > Karoliina, > > > > When I first flashed the new desktop on my N800 I was really taken by > > surprise. I wasn't prepared for such a dramatic change but it only > > took a very short time using it for me to quickly grow to like it very > > much. > > > > There are plenty of people out here who appreciate the effort that > > went into producing this desktop and appreciate the bold change even > > if it took them by surprise initially. The improvements in the desktop > > appearance from the original N770 release to the current OS2008 > > release are quite impressive. > > > > > > I don't have a problem with people wanting it. I have a problem with it > being forced on people who don't want it. > I would have been nice if a bit of effort had been put into allowing the > scroll bar to be moved to the left side, so that left handed people > don't have to scroll blind. There's a world of difference between eye > candy and functional improvement. > > Incidentally, a couple of years ago while working in computer support, I > had to ask a user to change her desktop colours, to something less > irritating (she had pale green and lilac or similar), so that I could > work on her computer. > > > > > -- > Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > -- Piotr -------------------------------------
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