[SATLUG] Beryl - what does it get you?

[Hector Bojorquez]

hmm..
the curmudgeons fail to understand that eye-candy explorations are
experiments in usability...
if it were up to them.. we'd all be still using command lines for
EVERYTHING....and the technology would fail to serve its masters... as
opposed to the other way around.

personally.. it looks kinda cool to me..


On 8/7/07, Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/7/07, ed <etillman93 at peoplepc.com> wrote:
> > It looks real pretty; kinda even mimics Macroshaft Windoze Siesta.
> > Question?  Why?  What _/does/_  it get you?
>
> Well, let's see.  It never fails to get a rise out of curmudgeons on
> LUG mailing lists.
>
> > I came to Linux to escape resource-hogging eye-candy for its own
> > benefit.  This seems a step backward in the process...
>
> A desktop GUI should be functional AND beautiful.  Beryl has useful
> features such as the ability to zoom and read small text, an "Exposé"
> feature that shows previews of all open windows, negative view,
> opacify, and real alpha transparency for all applications.  These can
> be useful features for the vision-impaired and  disabled people who
> might have a hard time using a mouse.  Personally, I just like eye
> candy.  ;)
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