[aklug] Your thoughts -- simple GUI designs

I was musing on something today, and was curious about your thoughts...
(I'm probably going to get banned from this list for all the unimportant
e-mails I keep sending).
I was looking at some screen shots of the eee pc, such as this one:
http://www.featuredsystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/snapshot1.png
I also read an article a while ago (won't bother referencing it) that
indicated that some people are attracted to the Linux GUIs of the
mini-notebook and 'netbooks' because of their simple GUI, and even that
Windows is "too complex" for some people.
Me, I'm a big KDE fan (no nasty comments about that, please). I like
many of its complexities.
Many major distributions have several DE versions of their distro; for
example, Ubuntu has Kubuntu and Fluxbuntu. Maybe these distributions
should also consider putting out versions that use a really simple,
'dummy-style' GUI; they could be similar to that in the screen shot
above, with tabs like 'work' and 'play', and big buttons like 'e-mail'
and 'web-browsing'.
And when I say simple, I don't necessarily mean minimalistic (like
Fluxbuntu, where you can do a lot, but it takes a while to get things
installed). But rather, simple in the senses of 'locked-down' and
'obvious' ease of use.
Again, I wouldn't want to use a DE like that, but I can see how it might
attract a lot of non-technical people to Linux.

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Received on Sat Aug 16 14:18:36 2008