On 19 August 2011 19:00, Giovanni Campagna <scampa.giova...@gmail.com> wrote: > As a specific example of unscientific user testing, I got a friend of > mine to try GNOME 3 at the desktop summit, and when it was time to > shutdown he just asked me, because he found no way and he thought it was > a bug. I'm sorry but I didn't have any explanations, so I just said "the > designers said so", and similarly I had none when some KDE hackers asked > me on the same problem. > I know that what I write, following the guidelines and the mockups, is > right. But people providing feedback don't always agree with that, and > if myself cannot understand the reason, how can I explain to them? > I understand that some features in 3.0 were like "design experiments", > because we have the whole 3.* cycle to improve. But if the results of > those experiments (that is, people's feedback) is not analyzed > thoroughly, how can we be sure that the design is right? Or on the other > hand, how can I see that the feedback is listened to, if decisions are > never reverted?
The Alt modifier to get to Shutdown options in the usermenu is clearly wrong. As far as I can see, that Alt modifier is used only once in the entirety of GNOME Core and is definitely not a common interaction anywhere in the software world. Thus it is completely non-discoverable. It is impossible for anyone to ever figure out that functionality unless they were told it was there. Core functionality like powering off a computer should not be an easter egg. I know that this has been discussed at length on the bug report and elsewhere but the designers have so far refused to revert this bug/feature so that normal people can use the usermenu effectively. I believe Debian has interest in shipping a non-hidden Power Off button and I'd expect Ubuntu's GNOME Shell package would follow that example. Jeremy _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list