Re: GNOME 2.0 Schedule

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

...and... there have been some significant usability improvements (easy
to hack, yes, but they have very positive effects on usability) to GDM
and some other core components.

-seth

On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 02:53, Seth Nickell wrote:
> > (Nonetheless, I do think replacing the control center, decent keynav,
> > lack of flicker, AA fonts, accessibility, and a few random things that
> > will inevitably happen, will be a noticeable user improvement. Not
> 
> plus a number of nice things I'm noticing in GTK... like better warning
> dialogue icons (for the most part, some of them could scare novice
> users), pressing a key to activate a button actually shows it depressing
> (this is surprisingly important!), and general improvements in
> appearance. oh, and lets not forget double buffering...
> 
> These are not inconsequential changes, and users *will* notice. I have
> enjoyed having anti-aliasing on my computer a lot, and it will be great
> to have that in mainstream GNOME, and that's just one of many new
> features.
> 
> Choosing a more attractive default theme (since of course, we will be
> using metathemes rather than having component specific themes ;-) would
> be another way to significantly improve at least the first impression
> with little effort on our part.
> 
> -Seth
> 
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