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bydskoll ( 99328 ) writes:
I love middle-click-paste. I could live with Mozilla et al. disabling it by default providing they give you a way to re-enable it. However, I fear that this is just step 1 and then step 2 will be to completely remove support for it.
Yes, it's important to appeal to newbie users. But it's also important not to alienate long-time power users.
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byhoustonbofh ( 602064 ) writes:
My fear too... They have a history of this.
byGravis Zero ( 934156 ) writes:
Yes, it's important to appeal to newbie users. But it's also important not to alienate long-time power users.
We are talking about the same people that came up with Gnome 3, right? I ask because they worked really hard to drive people (like me) away from the Gnome desktop.
bytechno-vampire ( 666512 ) writes:
In my case they succeeded quite thoroughly. When I saw what Gnome 3 was going to be like I started looking around, and by the time it came out I'd migrated to Xfce and Compiz and never looked back. It's lightweight (An important consideration at the time because money was tight and RAM upgrades weren't an option.) easy to configure and lots of eye candy available if that's what you want. Most of that goes on my laptop so that I can show off to people still using Windows and ask them why their computers c
byGravis Zero ( 934156 ) writes:
Same here. I was adrift for several years, trying MATE, KDE, XFCE, some obscure ultra-lightweight desktops but I eventually landed on LXQt. Nothing is ever perfect but I've been on LXQt for years now.
bycaseih ( 160668 ) writes:
Yes, it's important to appeal to newbie users. But it's also important not to alienate long-time power users.
Ahh the mythical new users. I'm not convinced they actually exist. All that ever happens in my experience is you do alienate the long-time power users.
byAnonymous Coward writes:
Yes, it's important to appeal to newbie users. But it's also important not to alienate long-time power users.
Ahh the mythical new users. I'm not convinced they actually exist.
They exist, but they don't fit the fit the newbie user stereotype (which is more fitting for some old, rancid, aggressive windows or mac user more than anything else).
Probably 90% of non "techy" users don't have any clue about Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V copy-pasting or any "advanced" features at all (like Ctrl-Z/Ctrl-Y undo/redo, searching in p
bycaseih ( 160668 ) writes:
That's certainly fine. They are welcome to not use middle-click paste. But I actually doubt any of those users have any reason at all to try Linux. That's what I mean about the mythical new user.
byserviscope_minor ( 664417 ) writes:
Yes, it's important to appeal to newbie users.
Though the way to appeal to newbie users isn't to simply be a shit version of their existing system. This is what the goal appears to be. Once it was to be a better Windows than Windows, then that morphed into mac envy. Apple will always have the best OSX. Micros~1 will always have the best Microsoft Windows. Because they get to say what those are. Any differences in a slavish copy are worse.
The only thing Linux can be is the best Linux.
bydargaud ( 518470 ) writes:
Why is a simple program like Firefox able to disable a window manager facility ?!? It should have no say in it. Now, Gnome wanting to disable it is another matter I can't care less about, I've always loathed Gnome and its complete lack of customability.
byallo ( 1728082 ) writes:
The problem is probably their non-native UI. Use standard widgets and you get all such features for free. But they replace them one-by-one. Why are the scrollbars so ugly? They are no longer system widgets, but something the browser draws. All form elements are also self implemented. The settings dialog is a HTML page (what a nightmare) and the about:config dialog that was a perfectly usable list box with all the shortcuts (you get for free by using a list box widget) you would expect. Now it is some HTML p
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