"I would have been nice if..."<br><br>I wish you in New Year to be less ego-centric, scream less, instead do more, and find something that may make you happy.<br>Mate, OS2008 is linux based, if you don't like something - do it yourself or if your knowledge is limited, *ask* nicely and I'm pretty sure someone will make it for you sooner or later.
<br><br>all the best<br>Pit<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 27, 2007 4:58 PM, James Knott <<a href="mailto:james.knott@rogers.com">james.knott@rogers.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">inode0 wrote:<br>> On Dec 27, 2007 10:21 AM, <<a href="mailto:Karoliina.T.Salminen@nokia.com">Karoliina.T.Salminen@nokia.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>>> One of the major changes in the desktop has been incorporating composite
<br>>> effects into it, thus to make it more appealing to the eye. And in my opinion, it looks<br>>> much better than the previous version, but that is just my personal opinion. At least<br>>> our team (see hildon-desktop ChangeLog for more details from
<a href="http://stage.maemo.org" target="_blank">stage.maemo.org</a><br>>> svn) did a lots of work to enable eye-candy composite effects that were thought to<br>>> be technologically not possible on the platform before.
<br>>><br>><br>> Karoliina,<br>><br>> When I first flashed the new desktop on my N800 I was really taken by<br>> surprise. I wasn't prepared for such a dramatic change but it only<br>> took a very short time using it for me to quickly grow to like it very
<br>> much.<br>><br>> There are plenty of people out here who appreciate the effort that<br>> went into producing this desktop and appreciate the bold change even<br>> if it took them by surprise initially. The improvements in the desktop
<br>> appearance from the original N770 release to the current OS2008<br>> release are quite impressive.<br>><br>><br><br></div>I don't have a problem with people wanting it. I have a problem with it<br>being forced on people who don't want it.
<br>I would have been nice if a bit of effort had been put into allowing the<br>scroll bar to be moved to the left side, so that left handed people<br>don't have to scroll blind. There's a world of difference between eye
<br>candy and functional improvement.<br><br>Incidentally, a couple of years ago while working in computer support, I<br>had to ask a user to change her desktop colours, to something less<br>irritating (she had pale green and lilac or similar), so that I could
<br>work on her computer.<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br><br><br><br>--<br>Use OpenOffice.org <<a href="http://www.openoffice.org" target="_blank">http://www.openoffice.org</a>><br>_______________________________________________
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