Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 12th Feb 2012 23:23 UTC
"One of the things that the GNOME design crew have been focusing on recently is creating a new approach to application design for GNOME 3. We want GNOME applications to be thoroughly modern, and we want them to be attractive and a delight to use. That means that we have to do application design differently to how we've done it in the past."
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Btw, "readily" means here "visible on the screen at all times and accessible with minimum effort".
BTW that's NOT what airplane UIs tend to be nowadays (not the first part of it, "visible [...] at all times" - it works against presenting what is actually vital in given situation), with glass cockpits and multifunction displays.
And it's an improvement.
Edited 2012-02-20 00:03 UTC
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2009-06-30
I'm not an airplane pilot so I don't need that many controls and displays.
But I want my system to provide me all the vital information and knobs as readily as the airplane "UI" does. Not (much) more and (definitely) not less. Btw, "readily" means here "visible on the screen at all times and accessible with minimum effort".
Perhaps the confusion of Gnome3 designers arrived from a deep misunderstanding of what these "vital" tasks are. They are assuming we are all reading facebook or are dancing to the music. That's perhaps true for iP*d users but it simply isn't the case for PC users (surprise: we sometimes use PCs for work).