On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I still think it would be valuable data to have. Knowing what > preferences people actively dislike enough to change is a useful piece > of information, surely. "dislike" is a value judgement and an assumption. "change" is what you can record.... you have to then follow up and figure out "why" it changed. Don't assume you know why. First find out what people are changing. Then you have to try to profile real world users who represent the design categories you were design for. Then you have to see of those people who correlate well with the target use cases are making changes to the defaults and ask them "why". It does not matter if 90% of the users who flip the default settings to something else are distinctly NOT the design target. It does not matter if 90% of the people who are currently using GNOME flip the default settings. What matters is if the use cases you are targeting with the defaults use the defaults. You can not design for everyone. You can not design for a majority of people. All good design choices serve some minority of existing preferences, and the rest of us adapt. You design for a set of usage cases and you narrowly focus design adjustments based on feedback from people who closely align with the usage case you are targetting. The other valid question that people are not asking themselves is this. Are you part of GNOME's target? If not why are you using GNOME? Let me take a second and do what I love doing best, talking about me. I know with great certainty that my usage patterns are not a use case that any existing modern desktop relevant tools is going to design for. I am absolutely unrepresentative of the target audience that GNOME is designing for. Does it matter if I use spatial or not as a design choice? Not a bit. Not one iota. Like pretty much every other computer tool or physical object I have to manipulate on a day to day basis... none of them are designed for my breath-takingly large intellect. Everything I do is done inefficiently because of design choices made to accommodate some aspect of the see of mediocrity in which I swim. Its a singular burden that I must bare. So why do I use GNOME? Because I am equally sure that every other desktop environment is going to suck for me in some other way. Every bikeshed serves equally well as shelter for my junk. I've no need to haul my gear around to different bikesheds looking for the one I think smells slightly better or has the freshest coat of paint. But I do like the smell of fresh paint. Don't you? -jef"do you know where I put my car keys?"spaleta -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
