This Revolution Will Not Be Televised

October 24, 2003 9:32 am General

So it seems I’m going to be working on fixing some of the usability problems with the current Java Desktop System, which for all intents and purpose is the GNOME desktop. We had a pretty successful beta program, with a large amount of interest in what we’ve produced. As a result, we’ve had a lot of feedback to chew and digest, and coupled wth a recent usability study based on the desktop, there’s a lot of small projects coming out of the woodwork.

It’s actually pretty humbling to see what issues have cropped up in the study, which hopefully the guys can soon release. From obvious problems of a poor help system, and a poor file selector to less obvious [or at least, harder to fix] problems with windows from launched applications hiding pretty important desktop objects.

Now it’s just a case of putting all these comments together, and trying to tackle them one by one.

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