On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 09:47:10PM +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > I don't use the word flippantly, but it seems odd to me how many users seem > to feel devs owe them something (explanations, time, respect). Where's that > entitlement come from?
In open source, developers and users should be on the same side. Many times, there is some "flow" between the two groups. With commercial software, the relationship is explicitly one of commerce and market dynamics. With open source, when functional at least, the whole community is important. So, while you certainly get a number of obnoxious people with an over-wrought sense of entitlement, not all feedback along these lines is that way. I share what I think not because I can't work around it, but because the new "enforced" workflow is more difficult for me and I think more difficult for others, to the detriment of the software as a whole. I don't presume any right to demand anything, but designers and developers who don't listen to their engaged, active, and concerned users are missing something valuable. If the same thing keeps coming up over and over again to the point where everyone is tired of it and very frustrated, maybe it's time to step back and rethink a little bit. Someone a while ago had the suggestion of building "sidecar" files with the entire undo history of an image. As storage space continues to increase, that sounds like a very promising path providing best of all worlds. I mean, sure, the developers are perfectly fine in saying "no, we're gonna do it this way", but it's also short-sighted to say "and stop giving feedback". It seems better to say "We did it this way for reasons x, y, and z, but we recognize that what you're asking isn't like the broken spacebar comic. You have options a and b now, and we're thinking about some even better approaches in the future." That's not a sign of weakness. -- Matthew Miller mat...@mattdm.org <http://mattdm.org/> _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
