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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Full screen?
From:       Marko Rosic <roske () mainstream ! co ! yu>
Date:       1999-09-24 8:29:48
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On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Rik Hemsley wrote:

> You know any Americans who understand English ? ;)

Nope ;)

> Not true. Linux is being installed on networks around the world. Look at
> the growth of Linux in corporations - large networks are going for Linux
> desktops. Many users of these clients are new to computers.

As I know many of those corporations are searching for an expirienced
user, or if the case is not like that, they organize an begginer's course.
At least, there is always someone more expirienced who will show the
basics.

> Linux is actually a pretty easy OS to understand when KDE is on the desktop.
> That's one of the selling points of KDE - you don't have to be a tech-head
> to use Linux when you have KDE running - you don't have to touch a terminal
> if you don't want to.

That's OK if you have an Admin on that computer, but if you are at home
with no expirience and Linux, slowly but certainly you willl run into some
problems.

And... Linux is not Linux without terminal ;)

> Linux _can_ be fixed to make it easier for beginners, by being coupled with
> KDE. That's what we're doing, isn't it ?

You'll have to decide who are you making KDE for:
* Total begginers
* Expirienced users

First whant easy to set up system, with little confuzing options.
Others whant configurability, and a bunch of options and features.

> I wasn't. I was stating that users get confused when their desktop starts
> doing things that they don't recognise. They don't know what to do. I was
> standing behind a user the other day (they were running Win98) when a
> 'maximised' app brought up a modal dialog which would not go away. They didn't
> know how to get to their app that was behind that window - I told them to
> use alt-tab. They were happy.

There is a small number of Full Screen apps, but those that are should be
alowed to enter it.
Total begginer will hardly use Blender. At the beggining I had dificulties
quiting it, but as I said not all users use Blender.
On the other hand Acrobat Reader is not an Full Screen app, but you "can"
enter it if you like more that way.
So let's asume that user who enter the full screen by cliking on such
option, knows what's he's doing.

> Same here. I don't like virtual desktops, and I don't like having to touch
> the mouse. I suppose it comes from my years at the Linux console with 
> ALT-Fn :)

Oh I like Virtual Desktops, more than Alt-Tab ;) I'm used to Alt-F1...
What I don't like is that I can't turn of the pager buttons on the panel.

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