Luke Seubert wrote:
That said, I did post a query in this forum asking if Debian Desktop should consider offering, during the install, IceWM tweaked to look like Win95/98 so that folks coming over from Windows would immediately be in a comfort zone and quickly productive. Haven't heard any response to that idea yet. Heh, heresy met with silence :-)
Oh, I missed that one. Yes, I *like* the idea.But I'm completely heretical on this theme anyway: I think where a user interface can be similar to the most widely used desktop OS, and it doesn't break anything or have other serious drawbacks, well, go for it. The major thing about a UI that leads to long-term productivity is *consistency*, and consistency across platforms helps.
Put another way, sometimes the *way* you do things UI-wise *just doesn't matter* that much; the fact that you do them the *sam*e is much more important.
UI consistency between different open source *programs* is absolutely horrible at present, but that's another issue.
Yes, I run Win98 at work, and IceWM at home.Hell, I'd like to cut-and-paste with control keys in X, just like in Win98; but I guess that would screw up Emacs, to name one. But, seriously, Luke, consistent and (dare I say it) Windows(Mac?)-like handling of the clipboard might be an issue for DebDesk to look at.