18 Sep
2010
18 Sep
'10
12:42 a.m.
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I can very much live with the default of Tree View and
not showing hidden
files. I find Icon View disorienting. All of the icons look the same to
me. Pictures might be worth a thousand words, but in a file manager I'd
rather have a thousand words. Maybe that is only because of the way I
started using computers so long ago.
I do understand your reasoning, however I'm not comfortable making that
large of a change at this point. If you want to enable it as the default
for Slackware that's fine with me--the file you will want to modify is
profile_filemanagement.desktop; change "View2_ServiceName=konq_iconview"
to "View2_ServiceName=konq_listview"
I don't think changing the default icon set will change any user's
expectations of how the desktop should work. Most computer users today
understand the desktop icon metaphor. But the icon style/theme can easily
change the user's impression. As the old adage goes, only one chance to
make a first impression. I don't think the old classic icon set makes a
good impression.
Neither do I. Right now Crystal should be used (at least it shows up that
way on my test system)--does a new user still use the old Classic theme on
your system?
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I think the shadows with icon text is hard to see for many people. I know
the older I get the more I dislike such bling. I wear reading glasses or
the text in a book is blurry to me. Not so 10 years ago. :) When I see
gimmicks like shadowed text on the computer desktop I struggle to read the
content. I suspect many people with poor vision do too. My greatest pet
peeve with Web 2.0 is that web devs all use humongous TVs for monitors and
they design the text for that size picture, which means the text is too
small to read on most desktop monitors. I treat gimmicks like shadowed
text the same way. Developers impress me the most when I remain
productive, not when they try to show off their programming skills. :)
OK, I'm convinced. White text with no shadows it is.
Tim