Am Samstag 10 April 2010 02:52:48 schrieb Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz): > > Compare Apple's early PowerBooks (eg. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Powerbook_duo_2300c.jpg ) to a modern > > netbook: No, not different at all (from a usability standpoint): > > 9" screen for display and keyboard + touchpad for input. If sold today, > > everybody would call them netbooks. > > Exactly and that's the problem. Netbooks are not regular notebooks or > desktops and that's what is most frustrating for users. Vendors put the > same software that is supposed to run on desktops on that tiny screen and > users have a horrible experience and then they blame the hardware, and it > is not the problem. This is the reason most users return their netbooks to > stores.
I'm not sure if either you misread or I wasn't clear. My point is the complete opposite: Apple has 25+ years of experience with GUIs on small screens . The whole Mac GUI is designed around small screens up to a point that it works bad on big screens (a global menu bar isn't fun on 30" screens). > The solution ? They started doing netbooks with bigger screens =/ That's the "solution" for Windows. I wasn't talking about Windows. > From my POV it > seems that your ideas are a little bit biased by the fact that you used > (and liked - and there is no problem at all with it) for a long time Mac > OS(X) That's what I openly stated from the beginning. I could've said "Look which great ideas I have and I had them completely on my own." but that would be dishonest. And who isn't biased in any way? We're all the sum of our experiences. ;-) I'm not a Mac fanboy. I switch operating systems and desktop environments as often as other people change their underwear. ;-) Btw, of my proposals only two are based on Mac OS: The "Application Menu" and the global menu bar. Window buttons on panel is a tweak of an idea posted by KDE's Stefan Majewsky: http://majewsky.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/the-kwin-button-applet/ PS: I don't know what you did, but could you please fix your mail client? Whenever I "reply to list" in your mails, the reply address is your private address and not plasma-devel@kde.org _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel