On Monday 02 Aug 2004 10:58 am, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > there is a big difference between a technician, who sometimes > experiments with music, and a musician, who writes score for his > daily bread and butter ;) E.g. technically minded people do not > seem to care about usability
No, you're absolutely 100% wrong here. Not, I mean, in the principle -- it may or may not be true that technical people largely don't care about usability. But in the case of Rosegarden we absolutely do. The problem is simply that _usability is hard_. It's much harder than "doing features", and it's hard for a large number of reasons. One reason is that while you can easily establish when something is hard to use, everyone will disagree on what would make it easier -- i.e. it requires creative insight, it's not just routine work. This is why when someone like Eric Raymond says that he's surprised to find that open-source usability is bad and that he's quite sure it can be fixed without too much trouble, someone like me says he's a moron who has never had a clue about software. > And don't forget: Inkscape has wiki for both users and developers. > Wiki is an amazing infrastructure for discussing various solutions > (with its cons, of course) -- I have used several wiki engines for > last year and I'm still under great impression. Ah, now you see I've always disliked wikis. I've never seen a good one. They strike me as exactly the sort of thing that technical types love but that are next to useless for real people (until they go completely stale, and then they're _actually_ useless). I mean yes, I can see the point, it's just that no, I don't think the point ever really translates into a working reality. I dunno though, maybe I'm blinkered. Chris ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
