I certainly didn't take it as unkind but just what you intended it to be and that of a feature request.
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Steve Herrick <estebandido at gmail.com> wrote: > I hope my post wasn't taken as unkind. It was just a feature request. I > can't code, but I can mock up interface designs, if that would help. I did > some of that in the early days of Scribus. > > Steve > > On Nov 12, 2010 11:46 AM, "Gregory Pittman" <gregp_ky at yahoo.com> wrote: > > On 11/12/2010 10:19 AM, Steve Herrick wrote: >> >> Stupid phone. I was trying to say, any given tool o... > This, I think, is the next layer of the GUI that we should begin to > incorporate. > > Just as an exercise in some kind of reality-check, I would say that there > needs to be a kinder approach to requests/demands/attacks about such things > from free, open-source software projects. > > I work in a hospital where, as far as I know, 6-figure contracts go out for > the software that we rely on for patient information. There is no mailing > list, no contact person, no way of giving useful feedback to the software > engineers who make and develop this software. At most, I have various > hospital administrators that I can communicate with who function as > complaint sponges, so that you can rest assured that any feedback you give > them will be firmly encapsulated and never released in any useful direction. > > In contrast to something like Scribus, there is really a short list of > things I want to do when interacting with this software: > > - find a list of my patients in the hospital > - look up information about these patients > - look up something on someone who was in the hospital, but has been sent > home or somewhere else > > In spite of this, one must manually work ones way through the GUI, with no > way of customizing its operation for your particular use. > > And so I end my rant, or anti-rant, for those who somehow feel entitled to > software that they can freely download and then demand that it conform to > their personal expectations. > > Greg > > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > ht... > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20101112/085c7664/attachment.htm> > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -- StevenD So you want it fast, good, and cheap. Choose any two. A bad day at the beach is better than a good day at work.
