[om-council] Lx 3.0 review
Tomasz Gajc
tpgxyz at gmail.com
Thu Jan 5 11:00:55 EST 2017
Based on points 1 and 2 looks like we need a person with a strong UX skills
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_experience).
This person must be responsible for deskopt layout design (colours, themes,
artwork, panels etc). Any volunteer ?
Point 3 refers to FCTIX icon, which is placed on tray, not the notification
are.
2017-01-05 16:39 GMT+01:00 rugyada <rugyada at gmail.com>:
> == Mostly @devs ==
>
> Hello,
>
> Very often I surf the web looking for any OM review/article.
> The ~good or very good I leave them for our proud, and keep on making
> a list with links :)
> Sometimes also we can read opinions, although not so good where
> however we could find some ideas about what we *could* do better.
>
> Before a next possible discussion on what are my own wishes, I guess
> it may be useful if you can give a look to this review.
> http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2017/01/openmandriva-lx-30-faint-shadow.html
> In particular if you could quickly go through the points:
>
> 1. The panel at the bottom of the screen is rather wide. It is because
> it uses 2 rows of "classic" buttons with window names instead of
> square-sized buttons with application logos as became fashionable
> recently.
>
> 2. Apart from these buttons, there is a menu button on the left side,
> and notification area on the right. This notification area is rich in
> icons. Apart from usual USB, network and volume indicators and clocks,
> it has clipboard monitor, updates status, wastebin icon, keyboard icon
> and a switch between 4 virtual desktops. These notification area icons
> are rather large, which makes little sense next to rather narrow
> window buttons.
>
> 3. The keyboard icon in the notification area is for virtual keyboard
> only. You can toggle the on-screen keyboard by right-clicking that
> item. There is also a choice between different layouts, including
> English, Russian and a half-dozen other languages. However, this
> virtual keyboard is useless - it does not transfer anything to the
> text window you want to type in. Also useless is the Settings item in
> the right-click menu of that icon. It means that the whole concept of
> including that icon in the notification area is more than
> questionable.
> However, if you want to configure your keyboard layout or add another
> one, you can follow the guide, which is still applicable to
> OpenMandriva 3.0. The only thing I'd like to mention here is that the
> configuration window is so wrongly sized that you have to use half a
> dozen scroll bars to get to the list of active layouts. This is
> nothing new for KDE users since version 3.0, but it has not been
> looked at.
> Unfortunately, even after configuring English UK + Russian layouts I
> was not able to type in Russian. Neither my hotkey nor mouse clicks
> allowed me to switch to a Russian layout.
>
> 4. Discover Software Center. When you launch it for the first time, it
> is empty. You need to refresh the repositories. However, I was not
> able to find the "update repositories" function anywhere in that
> application. Even though its window showed I had 30 updates, the size
> of all updates was zero, which gave me a hint that the list of updates
> was not fresh enough.
>
>
> Notes:
> - I noticed in live mode the panel is thin, while in installed system
> it become much more large (high). I know that panel size is a given
> percent of resolution screen, anyway I run both live and installed
> system at the same resolution.
> - for 1. I'm not sure to fully understand "classic buttons" vs.
> "square-sized buttons". Is it a standard Plasma setting?
> - for 4. Guess it's Discover upstream "fault". Or not? FWIW frankly
> speaking I never liked this kinda "bugged" bunt-ish piece of sw and
> never got the usefulness either :P
> - They are reviewing OMLx 3.0 on 3 Jan 2017. Guess it's actually Lx
> 3.0, not a small oversight (instead of 3.01) since they write "The
> latest release from that area of the Linux world is OpenMandriva Lx
> 3.0. It first saw the light of day on the 18th of August 2016."
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> --
> ____________________
> Best regards,
> Cristina
>
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