[News] Interview with Ben Hermans from Hyperion | ANN.lu |
Posted on 07-Nov-2001 20:45 GMT by Christophe Decanini | 194 comments View flat View list |
Christoph Gutjahr interviewed Hyperion about AmigaOS 4.0.
You can read the interview on amiga-news.de in English or in German.
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Posted by Graham on 08-Nov-2001 10:07 GMT | In reply to Comment 39 (Peter Gordon): - If I wanted to set an option, it could be in any one of around 8 different
- configuration editors, none of which were named anything that gave a clue
- to their function.
That is a distribution problem then, not a desktop environment problem.
Mandrake has the Mandrake Control Center, which basically manages everything, so everything can be configured from within the same application. Although not perfect, it is pretty good overall. Still, this is only an application, not a core desktop component! I would assume an KDE based AmigaOS 5 would still have Prefs: to setup stuff.
Apart from that, KDE is a breeze to use. Logical menus, consistent themable look, multiple named desktops (much more useraccessible than screens), menu can be at the top of the screen, and good applications.
Gnome is a bit more complex in my opinion, and looks a bit more amateurish in terms of default interface. However, v2 is slated to be used as the default desktop in Solaris 9 (a little after it is shipped). This is because it has a lot of good stuff under the interface, and the interface will probably be changed by Sun to look better.
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