by Dave | Nov 21, 2005 | Improving Apps
Just watched a video about the UI redesign in MS Office. Although I don’t use Office and haven’t for years, I thought some of their ideas were interesting, regardless of how well they pull them off. The underlying idea is that the user understands what the...
by Dave | Dec 18, 2003 | Improving Apps
If you haven’t heard of GnuCash, you’re probably not using GNOME. It is the financial program for GNOME. In that lies the whole problem. There is literally no other real program to do finances. There is a lot of functionality in GnuCash, but it’s a...
by Dave | Apr 24, 2002 | Improving Apps
Last time we talked about bizarre names in open source software. This time we’re going to address how to fix it. What constitutes a good name for software? Last time, we mentioned a trend to include within the app name a reference to the programming language...
by Dave | Apr 10, 2002 | Improving Apps
Too often, open source programs have bizarre, unhelpful names. This needs to change, at least for desktop applications, for Linux to really take off in that market. For all my love for Linux, software names in Linux are probably the most cryptic, arcane names...
by Dave | Mar 7, 2002 | Improving Apps
For Linux to succeed on the desktop, it needs to win only one more battle. This battle is to win over the non-geeks. Linux, though it pains me to say it, is still pretty tricky, if not difficult. I think if I invited my brothers at home to install it, I’d be...
