October 20, 2008
A GNOME overview in Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS
GEdit
Without tabs, each file will be opened in an independent window.
Totem
One image could be better than thousands of words
Notice that 'Movie' replaced with 'File', and the 'Sidebar' bottom became just an icon.
Also I hope that all codecs will be available next versions.
By the way, the same design is reomended for Media Player Classic:
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Fonts
One of the differences between Windows and Linux is using of a feature called "Smooth Edges" in Windows, and "Best shapes" or "Subpixel Smoothing" in Linux. it makes font consists of black and gray pixels, not only black pixels.
This feature is used in Linux everywhere; GUI items, web pages, and office documents... etc. But in Windows it excepts GUI items, since the font used in GUI items is natively designed for GUI items only, it consists of only black pixels, there's no gray pixels at all.
Linux is strongly recommended to follow this principle:
> "GUI font
should consist of black pixels only".
Nautilus
There are five applications could be merged with Nautilus:
Sound Recorder
As a bottom in Nautilus toolbar. The default path where file will be saved in is the current location of Nautilus.
XSane Image Scanner
As a bottom in Nautilus toolbar. The default path where file will be saved in is the current location of Nautilus.
Totem/Eye of GNOME:
Pressing 'Enter' on the opened file by Totem/EyeOfGnome should close its window and open Nautilus at this file, just like ACDSee.:
Audio CD Extractor:
I suggest a bottom on toolbar called 'Convert'. Pressing this bottom should lead user to a wizard consists of the following steps:
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Selecting the destination format
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Adjust format settings
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Selecting the destination path (by default it's the current path)
This idea will save a lot time and efforts for developing an independent application for each converting job!
Posted at 10:34 AM | Comments?Categories: Desktop, Distributions
