Hi, This is such a key question, and the answer I think GNOME is giving doesn't make sense to me.
The lack of consensus on this issue is what leads to the questions of why GNOME is no fun to hack on anymore and what language people want to use. The mistake of targeting the user group I think GNOME is going for is why the majority of magazines/user-sites believe that KDE is best. It seems to me that strong influences over GNOME want to develop the desktop towards the user group of tomorrow rather than the existing users of today. That is to say the focus is on the normal/ordinary 'call-centre' users. The issue with this is that it's completely ignoring the actual users of today - which are hackers, early adoptors and technical geeks. You ignore your existing users (your base) at great risk. It's makes you irrelevant in the current market place and since the early adoptors are the key influencers for the later users it removes the likelihood of you being relevant tomorrow. And, the fact of the matter is that most 'normal' users live with non-optimal solutions in computing so if they land up using a different solution they won't know/care there's anything better or bother to try it out. Is everyone in GNOME clear about who the target market segment is and how it impacts the project? Steve On 5/3/05, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sriram Ramkrishna a écrit : > > On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:20:11PM +0200, David Neary wrote: > > > >>>I'm really interested in pushing some of these articles to generic > >>>magazines where we can reach our target audience. > >> > >>Which is...? > > > > Which generic magazines? > > No, I meant "which target audience" :) > > Cheers, > Dave. > > -- > David Neary > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > marketing-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list