On 01/07/12 10:52, Alan Pope wrote: > On 01/07/12 10:38, Vic wrote: >> Just because Gnome3 and Unity do it a different way, doesn't make it >> the >> right way. >> > > A convincing argument for GNOME 2 you have there. > >> It would be really nice to have this discussion occasionally without >> being >> told we're just wrong for wanting the old metaphor that has evolved over >> many years, rather than the new and largely unproven one that's >> "trendy"... >> > > Reducing it down to 'them and us' doesn't help, it's not as simple as > that. Although someone probably has to be wrong, and sure, it could be > us. > > We do regular user testing with people (pretty much) off the street > and that helps to feed back to our design and development processes. > Sometimes they discover things with Unity that surprises us, and makes > us change the way the desktop works. One example of that was the > launcher dodging windows when they were brought near. > > We welcome new designs for features and behaviours & suggestions for > new or changed behaviour on our Unity design mailing list, and irc > channels. > > If someone flat out doesn't like it and wants to use another desktop > there's not much we can do, but if someone things we're wrong and they > know the 'right' way and can articulate it in a meaningful and > respectful (i.e. not just telling us it sucks) then we'll listen. > > We do listen, we may be wrong, time will tell. > > Cheers, Yeah, that's reasonable
" Project-in-process ", then .. Hope my 2d worth already posted, can help Lesz -- " The power of this life, if men will open their hearts to it, will heal them, will create them anew, physically and spiritually. Here is the gospel of earth, ringing with hope, like May mornings with bird-song, fresh and healthy as fields of young grain. But those who would be healed must absorb it not only into their bodies in daily food and warmth but into their minds, because its spiritual power is more intense. It is not reasonable to suppose that an essence so divine and mysterious as life can be confined to material things; therefore, if our bodies need to be in touch with it so do our minds. The joy of a spring day revives a man's spirit, reacting healthily on the bone and the blood, just as the wholesome juices of plants cleanse the body, reacting on the mind. Let us join in the abundant sacrament--for our bodies the crushed gold of harvest and ripe vine-clusters, for our souls the purple fruit of evening with its innumerable seed of stars ". Vis Medicatrix Naturae, by Mary Webb, in Spring of Joy: Nature Essays, Constable, London, 1917 " -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
