Re: state of Gnome usability was Re: Mozilla accesssibility site restructured

[Cheryl Homiak <chomiak charter net>]

I have to agree with Kenny.
Every time i try using gnome/gnopernicus, it's more trouble and less 
production than it's worth. No this isn't a gripe: I understand that 
gnopernicus is still in development stages and what you see is what you 
get, and I very much 
appreciate all the work that's being done. but to defend it as usable by 
most end-users is really stretching it at this point. I'm not a programmer 
either, but I don't mind playing with things, working on things, trying to 
get them to work to a certain extent. In linux, of course, more of your 
average end-users are of this type than perhaps is true of windows, but 
there are many linux users even who won't bother with something if it 
doesn't compile right away (if they have to compile it) or doesn't give 
them productive results very quickly. No, i'm not a steady gnopernicus 
user; I don't have enough disk space to have something on my computer that 
I don't yet find invaluable. Every once in a while I go through installing 
it and see what the state is and each time so far I've said: "No, I'm not 
ready to use this." I still have much quicker and greater success via the 
command line/console and supplementing that with freedombox than with 
anything in gnome. Again, this isn't a gripe since it's in development, 
but I wouldn't go trying to "sell" it as Windows competition just yet.
I'm not on mozilla-accessibility right now, so didn't include that list on 
my post.

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Cheryl

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."