Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 20th Mar 2007 01:51 UTC
The Beryl project has won a lot of press time so far with its impressive tricks -- even more than its slower-evolving daddy, Compiz. There are several lose ends to Beryl's core engine and incompatibilities with existing applications or technologies. However, something that really put off a lot of people when they try Beryl is its dreadful settings manager.
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Member since:2006-01-16
A searchbar is NOT something the falls under the scope of a window manager. Unless you are talking about a search panel within the settings manager. If that's the case you need to go back and take a closer look: there already is one.
I don't see what's wrong with the settings manager. The new design looks great and has a very logical layout. If you don't like it you're always welcome to go back to windows/mac.
Edited 2007-03-20 02:31
Member since:2006-09-08
http://www.osnews.com/img/17520/beryl.png
I must be missing something because I don't see a searchbar here. I'm thinking of something like this: http://www.mymacblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/system-prefs-sp...
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I also wonder why they didn't add a searchbar like most KDE and Mac OSX (like how Spotlight searches in preferences) preference apps have during the other re-design. It seems like that would help even the power users.
Ars Technica just did a review of Beryl and I have to say I'm pretty embarrassed for Mac OS X and Windows users hearing it called "revolutionary" when the options panel looks like it does. It just reinforces every stereotype about Linux.
Edited 2007-03-20 02:15