Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 25th Dec 2006 19:59 UTC
For those of you who have not followed the comment thread on the 'On Favouritism, Apologies, and Black Helicopters' story: I there promised to write an article about all the customisations I do on KDE to make it look and (more importantly) behave in my own preferred way; as a sort of Christmas present, so to speak (it is not like it is a fast news day today). Read on!
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Its a good article, and it touches a bunch of things of general interest that people have been talking about lately - customizability, ease of use, difference in desktop look and feel between Linux, Vista, XP. OSX. Its only 'personal' in the sense that it is one particular set of preferences, but the approach and the choices and the reasons for them are of general interest, they are all basically about usability.
The empty desktop was interesting. Where do people keep current files and why? In Home?
Teaching a class last year, all the students reported they found the same problem with XP which they were all using, they would often save their files and not know where they had gone, and they had problems with My Documents too. It never occurred to them to save them on the desktop. which they thought was the place you put the icons for your applications. It was made worse because most of them turned out not to know how to make new folders....!
Whereas people who have been migrated from Mac to Linux seem automatically to use the desktop as their top level file location. How do you feel about that?