On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, David wrote: > Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:03:49 -0400 > From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Usability] Chabada's Suggestions > > Dear All, > > I am not sure if you have seen this article (apparently it appeared on > SlashDot). http://chabada.sk/better-desktop/
I've seen it but I'm not sure it was discussed here on this list. I probably read about it on OSNews http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=14152 A lot of the suggestions could be dealt with directly by filing bug reports and feature requests and I think a few may have been filed already by the author. > Progress notifications, information about multimedia codecs and We really want to encourage people to use free and open formats and avoid vendor lock in problem which in the long run is a far worse problem. It might even be good idea to offer to transcode files to better formats before offering to install codecs for encumbered proprietary formats. Part of this "problem" is up to distributions and what they choose to include. Gnome doesn't include proprietary codecs and this stance is unlikely to change but some distributions do add them back in and give users what they think they want. Another part of it is education, to try and make sure users understand we cannot play formats such as MP3 out of the box due to legal hazards. Much as we might like to ignore the issue and give users what they want we cannot afford to as it will not go away and will only get worse. Fluendo and gstreamer do seem to be working at making it easier to install 3rd party codecs but we cannot achieve the ideal ease of use and without undermining other goals. > automatic music pause would all lead to a more intuitive systemi. the notion of pausing music has been discussed before, I dont recall if there was any conclusion or ideas on how best to go about implementing it. > The comments about displaying more relevant data in Nautilus are also > worth taking on board. I think the author may have posted those directly to the nautilus list. Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
