Egoless on It's a Binary World 2.0 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/tags/egoless/ Recent content in Egoless on It's a Binary World 2.0 Hugo en Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:03:05 +0000 The Ego-less Desktop vs The Commercial Desktop https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2008/04/16/the-ego-less-desktop-vs-the-commercial-desktop/ Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:03:05 +0000 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2008/04/16/the-ego-less-desktop-vs-the-commercial-desktop/ <p>In the most recent <a href="http://lugradio.org/">LugRadio</a> episode was a feature about how the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) states that applications should be named in the applications menu not as the program name, but as what the program does.  This is something I&rsquo;d like to explore a little more in another post.  But during the discussions, they mentioned an interesting point:  Gnome follows (or tries to follow) the paradigm of the ego-less desktop.  This means that it&rsquo;s not important who coded your program, it&rsquo;s important what it does.  And this got me thinking about one of the HUGE annoyances I have as I read the blogs and news pages about Linux.  Everyone complains about how Linux isn&rsquo;t quite there yet and how it needs to fix this or that before it&rsquo;s easy enough for the proverbial Grandmother.  Let&rsquo;s take a look at some use casse and see how Linux is precisely the opposite - it&rsquo;s MUCH easier to use than Windows.</p>

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