Re: January meeting

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> One good open source project that I would gladly join in on, if anyone
> started it: actual user interface design for linux. Designing new

For GNOMe, there is the GNOME UI Hit Squad. I'm sure you can find it
somewhere on www.gnome.org. They haven't tackled that many parts of
GNOME yet, but it's good work IMO.

> interactions for current software, etc. Even right down to saving files on
> the linux filing system. Who finds the filing system easy to use? Sure,
> it's easier than the MS system (which has the whole A:, B:, C:, etc.
> stuff, awful) 'cos it's flat, but still I often find myself trudging
> around the filesystem looking for stuff. If I'm doing a graphic in the
> GIMP, the GIMP should remember where I put my files, not me. Computers are
> for menial, repetitive work - stuff like remembering where files are.
> Talking of bad interfaces, the GIMP... no Alex, stop...

But when computers file stuff automatically power users get mad. The UNIX
filesystem is a bit screwed up, there are efforts to standardise it (sorry, no
URL)
but it's basically a problem that has existed since the SysV/BSD thing.

The GIMP isn't that bad when you get used to it either. :)

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