On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Christian Neumair <cneum...@gnome.org> wrote: > > Reading some of the responses, major concerns wrt accessibility, > theming and some other topics regarding "quality control" have been > raised. I'd like to add another one: All the current desktop > components (including the panel) have undergone usability studies from > major companies (Sun etc.) and many individuals. Maybe you could point > out similar usability studies for the shell?
None yet, but it's increasingly high priority. We are still missing a good chunk of the design as it is now to be implemented though. > A proper investigation of > usability is a prerequisite for not making GNOME 3.0 worse than GNOME > 2.30. I agree. > What happens if GNOME shell does not match the desired quality by the > time of GNOME 3.0, i.e. what is the plan B? Do we delay it? Do we ship > unfinished software that ruins our image of shipping good software? We delay it. > I am not trying to be rude. I am rather trying to explicitly state > some concerns that seem to be under the hood of your very own email. I > am not against changes. I also had some unpublished sketches and > concepts regarding "the desktop I want" [which IMO should work like a > personal life planner, i..e datebook + ..., where ... includes files, > notes, photos, associations with other datebook entries]. It pretty > much seems to be what you mention with the "Zeitgeist (data colletion) > engine to collect a rich view of how the user used their computer over > time". I don't see this kind of data-centric desktop in the GNOME > shell, so I don't see any new concepts but "just" lots of > application-centric UI polish. Well, we have a little bit of the infrastructure for this; the shell actively tracks and records application usage data, for example. We're not (at present) using this data in the UI but I have a plan to. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list