At 0:53 Uhr +0100 31.03.2005, Nicolas Roard wrote:
No, it's not that. We don't want to target
"developers" (as in, creating a "developer
desktop"), but at the same time, the most likely
people that will try and use étoilé in the
beginning are obviously developers and power
users (after all, it runs on linux..)
But of course, you're right: we shouldn't *target developers*..
Screw the developers. The GNUstep project itself
will cater to them (or rather, us) just fine.
Focus on end-users. Alex is right: If you think
how developers will perceive this project, you've
already gone wrong. Developers are computer pros.
They are used to odd names like "awk", "sed" and
"grep". They can remember *any* name and use
*any* design we throw at them.
(I'm exaggerating here, to make a point --
GNUstep is the developer place, the desktop is
where GNUstep meets end-users. It's easy to drill
open an end-user desktop to make it suitable for
developers, but you can't go the other way.)
So unless it is a decision about an API, what
developers think should *never* be the rationale
for a decision in this desktop.
--
Cheers,
M. Uli Kusterer
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