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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Birmingham City Council on GNOME and KDE
From:       Jure Repinc <jlp () holodeck1 ! com>
Date:       2006-11-30 21:30:13
Message-ID: 456F4D65.2010607 () holodeck1 ! com
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Hi

While reading an article: Birmingham City Council claims open-source success
http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsID=7459

I came across this interesting paragraph (under Frustrations section) 
that mentions GNOME and KDE usability:

"The case study also detailed the many frustrations involved in 
approaching an unfamiliar desktop technology, including the discovery 
that key applications wouldn't run on Linux and usability problems with 
the original Gnome interface. At one point, realising that most of the 
usability issues were attributable to Gnome, which had taken three 
months to configure, staff ripped out Gnome and replaced it with KDE. 
The new interface was up and running within a week."

Detailed results of case study can be found in 67 page PDF available 
from this page:
http://www.opensourceacademy.org.uk/solutions/casestudies/birminham-city-council/

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