On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 12:50 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > But this is exactly what drives people up the wall: > > - Please change X > > - Why would we, how can we know if other like it like that? > > - Look, there's plenty of indication on the web that that's the case > > - Pfff, even 95% numbers are not good, we want HARD numbers! > > - ... but ... that's nearly impossible to get :( > > - Sure, we know it's impossible, that's why we asked for them. Duh > > > 95% is just made up statistics as usual. No, it's not. You are just dismissing it off hand as usual. I have stated that 95% of computer users on Planet Earth are used to browser mode. That's an easy number to get to, see for example: http://gizmodo.com/340117/mac-os-x-market-share-at-731-and-rising In fact, judging by the above it may be more like 99.5%, but does it matter?!? The point still stands, but it was repeatedly dismissed out of hand because it's a heck of a lot more fun to argue about 93.5% vs. 95%. > I merely said that claiming a majority is impossible too. I also > noted that even things changed with many usability studies behind them > have lots of people hating that particular change. So there isn't one > particular default that satisfies everybody's tastes and that's ok since > changing it is pretty easy in this case and the non default cases are > being improved all the time as well. Just saying "it's easy to change" is just a lame cop-out. Most people don't bother changing from the defaults, they either like or dislike the system. The old "mechanism without defaults" has been proven time and again to be a total failure when it comes to "normal" users. We are here to build a desktop OS that's suitable for everybody do use. Defaults matter a great deal. -- Dimi Paun <dimi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Lattica, Inc. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
