On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 14:01 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: > Lack of that sort of information often leads people to assume (however > incorrectly) that designers are just making "best guesses", rather > than informed decisions. Which in turn leads the onlookers at large to > believe that their opinions have just as much chance of influencing > the ongoing design as anybody else's, resulting in everyone just > diving in saying how *they'd* like it to work :)
+1 Having worked with Open Source nearly full-time for 10+ years [but, sadly, not on GNOME shell or anything this cool] I just can't resist saying "here here"! The underlying issue, for me, is that "people to assume that designers are just making best guesses" represents a rather stupendous level of arrogance. I know in projects I work on the "**just** make it work like this..." messages [on code bases I've been working on since 2003] began to chafe, especially when coupled with a "Duh!" kind of tone. BTW, I'm pretty excited about GNOME 3.0 and to the extent I've used it I can see logic behind how thing works. -- Adam Tauno Williams <[email protected]> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
