On 06/10/2014 11:58 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 10/06/2014 17:34, William wrote: >> I have long played with the thought that perhaps there should be a >> secondary, not so super-scary version of Enlightenment for "regular >> Linux users". This would have to have a default interface with highly >> refined aesthetics and functional defaults. It would also have to >> utterly gut the settings panel, of... most things. Basically a stupid >> version of Enlightenment. I think it could actually be popular, but I do >> not feel it is my place to champion such an idea. > > It's my belief that Jeff already made much progress to make this > possible - Bodhi offers 6 choices of layout to the user when first run, > and one of them follows the general pattern of pre-Win7 Windows and > default KDE. > > It's quite simple to make these templates, they really are just standard > .e/e/ config files > > With a "basic stupid" version, all the functionality of enlightenment is > still there, just not exposed > I Don't disagree. Jeff has done a lot to simplify much about Enlightenment. In fact, I was just about to write about that. I especially like how easy breezy keeping the system up to date is. I also think it's great how I just type "sudo apt-get install bodhi-desktop" on a number of distros and bam! there it is as a DE choice at logon. That alone offers more incentive to give it a try since people can install in their favorite Ubuntu derivative rather than multi-boot just to try it.
And so I was about to write: Jeff, I will say that your work has gone a long way towards easing the situation across the board. So I pose the question to you: You being the one that brought this problem up, what more do you think you can do to make things better? Personally I think pushing forward with aesthetics is the way to go. Equally important, the settings panel needs two modes of operation that can be toggled between: basic and advanced. Advanced would be what the default as it is now, basic would limit presented options and would be the new default view. Picking and choosing what goes in what category could be tricky to a point. For example, a lot of stuff under "Windows" could be hidden by default, with defaults already chosen that mirror behaviors found in more popular distros. Also, I don't know if the person working on the Radiance theme is an official team member, but they were doing a fantastic job until 2 updates ago when it suddenly turned ugly. Perhaps you need to expand your core dev team to focus on the very artistic problems you mentioned? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
