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Arguably unrelated to GNU or the Linux Kernel - so maybe this isn't what you are asking for... but I hope it's close enough. Focus on the UI and UX of software
by Nadya 11y ago
Arguably unrelated to GNU or the Linux Kernel - so maybe this isn't what you are asking for... but I hope it's close enough.
Focus on the UI and UX of software that runs on GNU/Linux to promote mass adoption. Great, reliable programs don't help when the casual layman can't use them (no UI/all CLI) and things that look better often sell better than things that function better.
More users (and thus a larger market target for programmers) may mean more talent to improve GNU/Linux.
- walterbell 11y agoIs there a UI toolkit you would recommend?
- Nadya 11y agoI don't do software development, I simply use it. :) I'm talking more about form-function and a GUI interface being provided as an alternative to a CLI. Don't have 500 options buried under the "Options" menu. Be a bit biased on 'trivial' details to lower the amount of information a user needs to know/remember. Organize things in a reasonable manner. I've seen a music player where the play button was on the bottom left corner but if you wanted to skip the track or pause - the buttons were on the right. If you wanted to load a new directory to play music from you had to use "black magic" (read: hotkeys) of "ctrl+u" to open a prompt that asked for the directory to read from. As you might imagine - the UX was terrible.