Duplicate comments are not made intentionally. Its very good to know that now you are keeping check on this problem because sometimes a commenter...
"the very significant number of users" and "many (most) of us" - you have no evidence for these statements. It is a fact that most users are saying...
Another grammar faux pas is the improper use of "you". When sitting down down in a restaurant, for example, I get cringe when the waitress...
And NOW, folks, for Canonical's next trick...
Kubuntu is late.
Here's a pencil. Draw your own conclusions.
cf.:...
@kevinmchapman. The discussion here reflects the very significant number of users who really do like the traditional menu system and who wish to...
Er, no... It is an efficient means of finding the application/file/setting you need in one place. The icons are a simply a fallback for when you...
Isn't the provision of a text based search an admission by the developers that the mass of icons approach does not work? I don't need to use a...
"Unity and GNOME 3 both abandon the old text-based cascading menus in favour of a graphical icon-driven system."
Point truly missed. Both use a...
whs001 - Thank you, I'm glad you liked the article.
I absolutely agree with you on your first point. I should perhaps have made it clearer that...
If we allow corporate interest to dictate the way our government circumvents due process against foreign entities then we should accept the same...
I totally dislike pirating of works, I fear that artists will be deterred from creating works if they think that they are going to get ripped off....
How dare film makers, artists or anybody that invests in creativity stop us pirating their works for free. I want to be able to walk into my local...
@GrueMaster. I prefer horses for courses rather than one size fits all. I, and I suspect most other computer users, do not really wish to have...
The product that scares me every time I have to use it is the Office 2007 version of Excel.
The first bug that I found was applying the median...
Nice review and very informative. One thing I'd like to add (in reply to whs001's 1st question), the main reason to have the same interface from...
I'be been using Mint 12 since the RC came out, and I am far more happy with the Cinnamon, the Mate, and, yes (with extensions), theGnome 3...
Excellent article. One small correction, though--although a fresh installation of Linux Mint 12 will, indeed, provide the user with a version of...
In related news, the ISPs club together to get the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (ya goofed on that part, ZDNet UK) copies of "The...
In related news, the ISPs club together to get the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (ya goofed on that part, ZDNet UK) copies of "The...
For Gnome 2 die-hards, it is possible to add icons to the bottom panel (or top top panel, if you prefer) which provide the exact Gnome 2...
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I've tried it and it runs surprisingly well (it feels more like a beta or even an early release candidate). Extensions aren't instantly compatable, but that's a nominal thing; they'll work if you use the Night Tester Tools extension to 'force' them to (it just changes the value of the 'maximum version' it will work with)
I'm greatly looking forward to the reviews of FF2 vs IE7 vs Opera 9 that will be coming out later this year...
Does it matter as they are making much bigger mistakes ready for version 2.
Most home users have gone to Firefox for the tabbed browsing and ease of use including the single spot X button to close the active tab. The Mozilla developers have ignored these users and decided to make Firefox the same as other mozilla products and place the X close tab button on the relevant tab header so you now have to look for it, which detracts from your thought processes and ruins the usability. The trouble is you don't realise until you have closed the wrong tab for the umpteenth time and then it becomes a big issue whereas none existed before the change. reverting the behaviour back via an add on does not help as the confidence damage has been done. So places and history may work exceedingly well, but if you don't use the browser because of other issues, who cares!
One answer to my complaint was that IE7 does it that way. Great, I may as well use IE7 then ! Someone at the root of Firefox has decided they are the next big thing after BG and TL and have lost the plot big time as often happens with meglomaniacs