On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 06:28:30PM +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote: > > Filing bugs regarding Gnome2 usability is senseless; Gnome2 developers think > that they are the gods of usability and reject anything which is against > their ideas. <shrug> I haven't noticed that. I have noticed that they tend to stick very tightly to a set of usability rules (which are approved and allow modification) which follow well-known guidelines that have been tested experimentally and with ordinary users by many, many companies and programmers. They don't seem to think that they are the "gods of usability"; if anything, they're following in the footsteps of a large amount of research and discussion from everyone in the industry. The only person I see as setting himself up as a "god of usability" is you, who apparently gets strongly upset whenever any one of your ideas is rejected. This despite that almost all of your suggestions that I've seen go against every well-known and well-tested concept of usability. It's easy enough to point you to books, essays, and research on the topic of usability (I believe that earlier someone pointed to links to chapters from Joel Spolsky's book, for example) that disagree with you. People aren't disagreeing with you out of arrogance or refusal to listen; they're disagreeing with you because there is real data to back their side. I don't doubt that your suggestions would make life easier for you personally, but they don't apply to users in general. I'm not going to reply anymore, though; fedora-desktop-devel or some of the GNOME desktop mailing lists are better places for this sort of thing. John Thacker
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