20th May 2017, 4:39
(This post was last modified: 20th May 2017, 4:42 by kdemeoz.
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I came to Maui 1 from Mint 17.3 KDE4 last year. Despite some very rocky [pun partly intended, but only a limited number of readers might get it] patches over the intervening months, Maui for a while now has also for me settled into that "comfortably boring" phase that several others have already mentioned [& to clarify, i'm saying that's a good thing, not a bad thing :-) ]. It continues to impress me with its overall solidity & design concept. One aspect i give specific kudos to is the System Settings design. Overall i feel this is laid out in a logical & well-considered style, which reflects a measure of design thoughtfulness by the Devs. If anyone can't understand my meaning, just have a look at other Plasma5-based distros, like Mint or openSUSE, & use "Audio" as an example. In Maui we have a dedicated obvious top-level icon for that, whereas in the "standard P5" Settings GUI of Mint & openSUSE there is none, & so it's not immediately obvious to a casual user where she should go to find those settings [turns out it's in "Multimedia", which might make sense once you know, but is not obvious before you know].
One thing though that i would respectfully recommend to the Maui Devs is to consider implementing something similar to the openSUSE "YaST" GUI tool... it's frankly fantastic.
Part of this thread's title was "This is a quiet forum", & compared to two others that i also routinely use [Mint & Vivaldi (browser)], it really is quiet here. Now i'm alluding not merely to topics raised on specific user problems with Maui, but on more broad topics not even necessarily narrowly specific to Maui per se. Again, for anyone not understanding me, just visit & peruse both those other fora to see the rich diversity of subjects actively canvassed. Of course, there is nothing the Maui Devs & Mods can do about that; it's entirely down to the willingness of the Maui user-base to participate... or not.
One thing though that i would respectfully recommend to the Maui Devs is to consider implementing something similar to the openSUSE "YaST" GUI tool... it's frankly fantastic.
Part of this thread's title was "This is a quiet forum", & compared to two others that i also routinely use [Mint & Vivaldi (browser)], it really is quiet here. Now i'm alluding not merely to topics raised on specific user problems with Maui, but on more broad topics not even necessarily narrowly specific to Maui per se. Again, for anyone not understanding me, just visit & peruse both those other fora to see the rich diversity of subjects actively canvassed. Of course, there is nothing the Maui Devs & Mods can do about that; it's entirely down to the willingness of the Maui user-base to participate... or not.