Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 5th Jun 2003 06:49 UTC
One year ago I wrote a review of Gnome 2. Some people thought I was harsh, others thought I was fair, point is, I always write what I think and surely Gnome 2.0 didn't have the polish or stability of a .0 release. But one year has passed. Gnome 2.2.1 is out, and I must say one thing: I am starting to get impressed by the effort and the clean interface Gnome 2 is now offering. Update: Screenshots inside.
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I'm a fan of any system that simultaneously provides more detailed facilities for the system administrator to specify settings and fewer, broader options for the users to tweak. I'm definitely in favour of ruthlessly applied interface guidelines. That's because I work in an institution that has to provide the tech support for the desktops we offer. Every option the users are given to tweak will lead to another call to the help desk as the user forgets how to set it back or gets confused by the results or it will lead to longer calls as the help desk have to adapt to this particular user's settings as they try to navigate the user through his or her unique desktop.
Enforced consistency is a life saver for tech support.