On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 19:57 +0000, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > On 2007-10-14, Mark Tiefenbruck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While I agree with you from an engineering standpoint, it's just not > > that simple. User expectations do, in fact, trump design simplicity. > > What's the fucking big deal about some old Athena-based program > not having shadows under its menus? The typical "ooh! shiny" > luser who cares about fancy anti-usability effects won't even > know that such programs exist. But, I guess putting good design > ahead of glitz is something that the desktop herd won't even > consider in their quest for world domination. (And eradicating > choice in the process by turning the OS into an idiot box that > power users have hard time configuring to their needs anymore. > fontconfig AA/XML-fascism being case in point. It's easier > these days to switch to windows and enable unblurred fonts > there than to configure FOSS crap to use unblurred fonts.) >
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