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Redhat's new look

Submitted by stro on Thu, 2002-08-22 17:57. Red Hat

Texstar of pclinuxonline, recently posted a bunch of screenshots from Redhat's 3rd beta release known as null. Redhat has made a huge effort via the use of similar icons and themes to make their packaging of GNOME and KDE resemble each other more closely . What do you think? (Poll Attached)
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Re: Redhat's new look

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2002-08-25 17:40.

Gnome looks good, but too microsoft-like (probably good for RH as far as getting newbies going lol). I was pretty interested in the 'new' Gnome 2.x icons to be honest.

However, KDE looks plain awful. KDE should use the same icons as Gnome... or atleast look-alikes of them. Why go to all that work and only use those icons for Gnome? It doesn't make sense! The titlebar/window-decor could be made more to look like Gnome as well.

First and foremost, this must be said - make it fast! I refuse to buy another linux distro until the file managers are atleast as fast as on other operating systems - like windows, macos etc. Having to wait on average 5 seconds, up to and over 10 seconds at worst, for the file manager to launch and get up and running after clicking on it is NOT ACCEPTABLE. This is on a fast computer (over 1ghz) with a fast video card (atleast 64MB DDR) and alot of ram.

To summarize: Gnome looks good (should be option for 'original' Gnome 2.x icons though), KDE needs to look ALOT MORE like Gnome than it does in those pictures, and MAKE IT FAST or I won't use it.

The user experience needs to mean alot more to linux distro's than it currently does, which RH apparently? realizes from the screenshots. The only question is will they stop trying to immitate windows and start adding more "apple'ness"? That is to say, the UI needs to not only be fast and friendly, but different enough to be innovative. The beginnings are there with the windowsxp-like 'add/remove' interface for package management and with the (finally!) ability to change to a white cursor scheme (I'm guessing it only works for gtk-based apps, but I hope I'm wrong), but that is just that - a beginning. DON'T STOP YET. Add more windows-like 'ease of use', but do more in the area to make the UI standout. It's been years and multiple generations of both Gnome and KDE, but they are both STILL only windows look-alike wannabes (sorry- it's the damn truth). It's time for RH to take the initiative even further and mold their own distinct UI characteristics for their users.

Don't get me wrong - RH is doing a good job so far, but the task is FAR from over ;)

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