Re: [Desktop_architects] Regarding GNOME usability (and the Linus, Schaller debate)

2007-02-24 Thread Jeff Waugh
> 0) I put this on this list because here is where I read about the original > discussion of Gnome usability, I wasn't aware of a gnome-usability list. > Since I'm not sure where I would find this list, and I'm not entirely > convinced that this doesn't belong on this list, I'm leaving it here, i

Re: [Desktop_architects] Regarding GNOME usability (and the Linus, Schaller debate)

2007-02-24 Thread Andrew Spott
0) I put this on this list because here is where I read about the original discussion of Gnome usability, I wasn't aware of a gnome-usability list. Since I'm not sure where I would find this list, and I'm not entirely convinced that this doesn't belong on this list, I'm leaving it here, if more pe

Re: [Desktop_architects] Regarding GNOME usability (and the Linus, Schaller debate)

2007-02-24 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On February 24, 2007, Andrew Spott wrote: > I'm dying to know what the issues with doing this are, because I don't see > them, but it seems like such a simple solution, in a debate that has been > going on for a while I'm surprised that it hasn't happened yet. 0) i'm not sure this belongs on this

Re: [Desktop_architects] Regarding GNOME usability (and the Linus, Schaller debate)

2007-02-24 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:49:29 -0800 "Andrew Spott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why hasn't someone just put an option SOMEWHERE. (really anywhere, in > the gconf database, in some 'somewhat' hidden check box somewhere, > somewhere that isn't impossible to find, but beginning users will be > deferre

[Desktop_architects] Regarding GNOME usability (and the Linus, Schaller debate)

2007-02-24 Thread Andrew Spott
Since this argument seems to have flared up again recently I would like to put my two cents in, because ultimately, I don't see how this doesn't have a simple solution. Gnome strives for ease of use; for the BEGINNING user. As far as I know, no one wants to make it so that the power users, or th