J
jim
see video of new mandriva linux 2007 metisse desktop
P
Paul Smith
jim said:
Microsoft have already experimented with things like that years ago. It was
too disorienting for the end-users.
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T
Troy McClure
its nothing more than another bloated linux multiple desktop interface...
great for little kiddies that think they can run linux on the desktop. try
it in the real world
great for little kiddies that think they can run linux on the desktop. try
it in the real world
B
Beck
Paul Smith said:
Not only that but utterly pointless. Why would I want to view a page at an
angle? lol
V
Vash The Stampede
Versions of Windows get dumbed-down more and more each iteration, and you
say Linux users are kiddies?
V
Vash The Stampede
What's Aero do, again?
C
Conor
<walks off, shaking head>
Looks like another desperate attempt. My God that's just so unusable.
B
Beck
Vash The Stampede said:
And Aero is another pointless eye candy.
T
Troy McClure
whats aero do? certainly not let you view pages at an angle... which is what
you just implied.
go play with your open source kiddie toys
you just implied.
go play with your open source kiddie toys
J
Justin
True, but it was nothing like that. Not only that but what you mention is a
classic example of MS being ahead of it's time. As you stated, it was too
disorienting....to people back then. Today, now that Apple has decided to
"copy" the idea, people are more savvy and more open to this change. Now
it's apparently the greatest thing...ever.
That video was MUCH more advanced then what MS experimented with. In fact,
it was pretty damn sweet. I liked it a lot. Aside from the windows at an
angle thing, I'm guessing the window would be equally as hard to read as it
was in that horrible compressed video.
classic example of MS being ahead of it's time. As you stated, it was too
disorienting....to people back then. Today, now that Apple has decided to
"copy" the idea, people are more savvy and more open to this change. Now
it's apparently the greatest thing...ever.
That video was MUCH more advanced then what MS experimented with. In fact,
it was pretty damn sweet. I liked it a lot. Aside from the windows at an
angle thing, I'm guessing the window would be equally as hard to read as it
was in that horrible compressed video.
V
Vash The Stampede
On this i agree. Not very useful, actually.
What they did with ALT+Tab was much, much better. Also, hovering over an
app on the Taskbar.
All that to make Aero work, and it's basically useless. I ahve alway used
ALT+Tab or the taskbar to switch apps.
V
Vash The Stampede
I play with everything. I stiull have a macine running DOS, just because
it's so damned quick on a modern computer.
Infortunately, '95 won't work on any of my current hardware, or I'd run
that.
I have XP Pro on another machine. And two versions of Linux.
Hope you're not pretending to be an 'expert'.
B
Beck
Thankfully I cannot get Aero anyway so am on the aero basic. It does what I
need it to, no more and no less
