This bug report has now been rewritten to a very different proposal, that of bifurcating Ubuntu's interface based on whether users self- identify as "beginners" or "experienced". That is no longer to do with the Ubuntu documentation.
It is also an idea that has repeatedly been shown not to work. It was tried during Windows 95 development and failed[1], it was tried during Microsoft Office 2007 development and failed[2], and it was even tried in early versions of Gnome and failed[3]. It fails because it asks people a question they have no interest in answering, because people overestimate themselves, because people are often beginners in some parts of the system while being experts in others, and because if you need *just that one thing* that happens to be in the "expert" mode you have to change the entire interface to get to it. [1] http://sigchi.org/chi96/proceedings/desbrief/Sullivan/kds_txt.htm (see "Separate UI for Beginners") [2] http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/02/07/526635.aspx [3] http://zgp.org/pipermail/linux-elitists/2003-October/007782.html -- Some New Users have a hard time switching to Ubuntu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/83045 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
