Regarding look and feel, Gnome’s default widget look is a very boring one, and maybe one of its weak points. 2x16x16 icons on a 32-pix panel) and clarity reasons (today it is difficult to distinguish the difference between an icon and the foot menu – they all have the same space between them and the same size with only a small arrow showing that the foot menu might be ‘special’). This is important for both real screen estate (so I could put two icons vertically – e.g. Another feature I would like to see in its panel is the ability to have a “Quick Launch” area where all application launcher icons are the half-size of the Gnome menu icon size.
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I wish someone adds an option to the tasklist to not display the name of the open application, but only its icon (and an ALT text when on-mouse-overing) in order to create a panel which “emulates” a dock a-la Mac OS X. You can have many different panels and design your panel the way you want to.
Gnome instead tries to have good defaults, fewer options: less is more.ĭespite the menu-editing limitation, Gnome 2 is quite flexible and extensible with the use of its taskbars. KDE tries to offer any possible and conceivable option and they run in the danger of clutter. I believe this is the biggest difference with its rival, KDE. Gnome tries to not include more than 10-12 items per menu, as this is the maximum number users can handle “at a glance” (something that is important when considering a good UI). Bloatware is what I can’t handle for more than 10 minutes. I like simple and to the point UI designs. While there is still no menu-editor for Gnome 2 (the Nautilus one doesn’t work with Red Hat Linux 9 by default, and Nautilus is hardly the best way to handle this issue anyway), I must say that the “keep it simple” design of Gnome 2 is what won me over the time. This app is not HIG-compliant, but you can feel the extra thought its developer put upon. Example of a great-looking application that a non-core developer created with (obviously) lots of care: tsclient.
It is absolutely imperative that developers read, understand and comply with the HIG as it is for the good of the platform in the long run. The absolutely great thing about the HIG on Gnome is that it has won the hearts of all its maintainers, so when people are suggesting applications to become part of the main distribution of Gnome, they are instructed to HIG-ify their applications. A few things could always be designed a bit better, but because of the whole consistent and non-bloat look, it doesn’t make the life of the user any bad. All its preference panels are following the Gnome HIG, so there is great consistency throughout its included apps. The area where Gnome excels today is in usability. Gnome 2.2.1 is out, and I must say one thing: I am starting to get impressed by the effort and the clean interface Gnome 2 is now offering. Some people thought I was harsh, others thought I was fair, point is, I always write what I think and surely Gnome 2.0 didn’t have the polish or stability of a. One year ago I wrote a review of Gnome 2.
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