Fab, On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Fabian A. Scherschel <fab@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Oh, come on! > Asking the user what wallpaper they want on boot is obviously nonsense! > Should we also ask them what colour icons they want or where the panels > should be? How about the browser or the default email program? Where does it > stop? > The job of a distribution is too decide on sensible defaults so the user > doesn't have to. This is ridicolous! It's not that ridiculous if you think about it. It might be different to what you are used to from a Linux distro. I'm thinking of lots of modern websites where the design and functionality has been changed*. These are leading sites that haven't got to where they are by alienating users. It is similar to changing the way the desktop works. As a gentle introduction to the changes, the user on first login is offered a tour of the new features which integrates nicely with a chance to change or set the optional bits of the interface. Actually I think that would work really well with Gnome 3 if only someone had the time, the overall vision and the responsibility for making sure the users 'bought in' to the new design... -Cam * new.facebook.com and then Facebook's 'New profile'; the second redesign of Orkut; YouTube's new layout all had interactive tours to introduce users to the new features (and turn bits of them off if they didn't like them) _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
