<gg <at> catking.net> writes: > I dont think Nathan's analysis is that far "off the mark". The interaction > with the UI team is very one way and definately gives the impression of > "please go away , we're busy." > > The so called brainstorm blog is more like a super market's suggestion box > than a discussion. > > There is a definate attempt to keep "outsiders" at arms length and the > blog really just looks like it's there so any critisism of not being open > can be countered by saying "look we have the blog for ideas". Well, I agree with the gist of your message... but one thing needs to be said: Designing a good UI doesn't require the same amount of people that implementing it in code does. I work in a small software house and our software is much more complex than the Gimp. We have exactly 2.5 people [1] who do UI design. But we have dozens of developers. As for the UI blog, I think it's misleading: it is obvious, from the analysis done by the UI team, that they don't really care about the proposed solutions. This is just a way to find out what *problems* the users are trying to solve. The UI team will come with its own solutions in the end. Like you, I'd like to see them before they are implemented... I myself sometime have UI ideas which I post here, but I never know if the UI team did not think of them already. [1]I'm the 0.5 - I'm mainly a graphic artist but occasionally help with the UI _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
