-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jay Vaughan wrote: > It is *important* that such things as a usable GUI, which > looks nice, are presented very, very rapidly - there is no other way > for our projects to snowball than to attract the interest of those who > will use the hardware. So far, nobody is enjoying the usability > experience, terribly much, and this is because of this attitude that > 'the community will fix it'.
I give you reason. A gui, a wiki are the first things that a user see. I think a very nice gui, can convince a lot of people to buy a phone in place of another. Wiki is the first place where a person go searching for info. The problem is that to did this has a cost. And big too. An artist cost a lot and I prefer OM use his resources to take a kernel developer or an hardware enginer. This don't mean that OM don't need of skilled graphician and people that can help Brenda to take care of the wiki. > Sorry, its one thing to fixup the GPS/SD issue (which is still > borked), its another thing entirely to sit down before you commit any > further silicon and say "this doesn't work, it is not to our > specificaiton, we need to /design/ it better". Glamo, SD, GPS. Three > things we really do *not* want to talk too loudly about, if we want to > continue to attract developers.. and I am fairly convinced that it is > the lackadaisical attitude to the qualities of the hardware, which > would ordinarily be addressed through a *strong* design ethos, which > brought this situation about. I don't think it was a "we don't care". Error can happen. With lucky some were possible to be solve. In the future they will learn by their experience, and we finally we will have from Linux 1.0 a Ubuntu 8.04 / Fedora 9 with Gnome / Compiz / KDE4 :) > > ; > -- > Jay Vaughan > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkiOPBEACgkQSIAU/I6SkT2DIACfRYafShQRhbSz98gMb2TrGWXA Aj4AmgK6+fuDuVTJzyr1J1PtFvxPz5fp =/rC9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
