20+ years of "binomial nomenclature" thinking have left a lot of people prewired to a certain type of drill-down searching for applications and commands within those applications. (For example, Firefox lives within the Internet menu, and I forget what the official name for the "File, Edit, View, Tools, Help" layout of the menu bar is, but its ubiquity leads to a certain familiarity.) While that's not the whole story I imagine its a big part of it. <blockquote type="cite">On Jun 27, 2010 10:29 AM, "Sascha Silbe" <<a href="mailto:sascha-ml-ui-sugar-iaep@silbe.org">sascha-ml-ui-sugar-iaep@silbe.org</a>> wrote: Excerpts from Caryl Bigenho's message of Sat Jun 26 21:29:50 +0200 2010: > I agree with Sameer and Marife. From an educator's point of view, having both Sugar and Gnome av...I'm curious. What's the reason some people - especially adults - prefer Gnome? Do they like the UI better? Do they need/prefer specific applications and it's too cumbersome to start them from the Terminal? Is Sugar too limited in some aspect? Is it that Sugar is currently marketed as being "for kids" and they (mis)take that to mean "not for adults"? Sascha _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> </blockquote>