On Friday 04 March 2011 10:23:00 Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On 3/3/11, david wrote: > >> Bedroom software developers have never had to learn to > >> eat their own dogfood. > > > > Actually, that is why many of the apps are the way they are. Their > > developers made them that way because they do use them, often daily. > > (Many open source apps came about because some programmer had an itch, > > and scratched it.) It works fine for them, so why should they change it > > to fit some "amateur's idea" of how the program should work? > > Ah, one of my favourite topics :) > > The thing is that you don't break it down to a programmer that his app > sucks. You tell him how to make his app even better than it now is, in > a way that would keep his workflow more or less along the same lines > while improbing every other bit. And with time you can even convince > him/her to improve workflow. I've been doing that for years, and guess > what -- it works. +1 Well put. > > Alexandre Prokoudine > http://libregraphicsworld.org all the best, drew _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
