On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:05:19 -0500
jonc wrote:
Since FOSS developers usually lack a way to find out what users
really
do so they can write software to make that easier, they might as well
ignore anecdotal feedback, other than bug reports, and go with their own
assumptions about how and why they and their friends use software.
But if you read some of the articles where the justifications for
things like Gnome 3 have been presented, the developers are constantly
talking about how they are doing it all for "typical users". The problem
is that these typical users are all totally imaginary and exist inside
the designer's heads.
If they developed stuff they actually wanted to use themselves, there
would at least be a few real users instead of a crowd of imaginary
typical users.
But of course the real mystery is why in the blue blazes all the
linux distros seem to fall all over themselves to foist this junk
on real users. Certainly developers don't have to pay attention
to anyone, but distros don't have to include stuff merely because it
is new either.