On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 15:20 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 14:50 +0100, Sergey Udaltsov wrote: > <snip> > > And, did you think about setting up the formal survey? Your idea to > > ask people was really good! > > I think that our past experience with "surveys" done in the context of > GNOME have shown that this sort of survey isn't useful. > > Asking people isn't about tallying who wants this option to stay, or > absolutely needs the frobnicator to whirr clockwise, it's about defining > requirements, and seeing how people use the current tools. Open > questions are much more likely to bring in useful data for the design > process than a survey ever would be. > > Taken to the extreme, as an example you'll be familiar with: if you > asked "how many people use more than 1 keyboard layout" on a Russian > Linux site, you'll get 90% positive responses. If you asked the same > thing on a French end-user forum, you'd get close to zero, with none of > them knowing what a compose key is, because it's just "the Alt-Gr key". > > So any survey is likely to be biased, which makes surveys not so useful. > > Hopefully we can get Rui's code merged in early enough that we can catch > most of the obvious problems before release, and work from there. >
Wait - aren't compose key and Alt-Gr 2 keys? I thought the compose key is the one used with XCompose used by 'geeks' to have various symbols such as γ or ∈. Alt-Gr (at least the key marked as Alt-Gr) uses alternative keys in layout for example ą, ę (this can be overriden by xmodmap). Best regards _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list