On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Mark wrote:
>
> I
> think i am indeed getting done a part of what i hoped and that's
> raising awareness that this option in nautilus should be changed and
> that the majority of any linux related community is in favor of it. I
> don't have hard numbers to back that up but there are no hard numbers
> on community users so don't ask the impossible of me
>
You are being self contradictory. If you don't have any hard numbers, you
cannot actually claim a majority at all and yes, finding hard numbers is
difficult if not impossible and doesn't really translate into usability
anyway. I wouldn't blame you for this. The real problem is that we haven't
yet figured out a good community centric approach to usability though many
different people are trying. Even in cases, where there some acclaimed
usability tests behind a particular change, many Linux users still felt the
changes were all wrong. One example is the Slab menu or the new KDE 4
default menu. In the end, all that you have accomplished is to note again,
that the Linux community has strong and sometimes deeply conflicting view
points and aren't afraid to express them but I think, most of us are
already aware of that.
Rahul
To be completely off topic -- the discussion about browser mode seems
over anyway -- the kde 4 menu does suck. besides that it's buggy it's
not intuitive although it might be better if the existing bugs are
fixed. The only thing it is is looking better then what was the
classic menu.
I will see if the bug (talking about the spatial vs browser mode now)
that is targeted for gnome 2.24 is really gonna get in thus meaning
that browser mode is enabled by default again. The link is in one of
my previous posts.