On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 16:49 -0700, Rob Adams wrote: > If it's off by default we may as well not bother to include it, since it > will be utterly useless in counting measures. We'd just as well have a > web poll to track market share. Well, I'm not so sure. (But I take your point seriously.) The thinking is that GNOME users look at the about-gnome box at least once.
If the option of enabling this function was presented right, a large proportion of users _may_ enable it. We have no real way of knowing how large a proportion at this stage, but we can do research in the future to determine this. > We can avoid accusations of privacy violations through the very > transparency under which we develop everything: The source code for the > client and the server. I happen to agree with you, but I think many others would not. > The question that remains to answer is: Are the statistics sufficiently > valuable as to be useful? Yes, yes yes! I could not agree more. We have been agonising over this for some time. If you want to help, please visit http://live.gnome.org/CountingUsers read it, think about it then add your thoughts for doing things better. > What do we compare them to to determine > market share? The total number of computer users in the world. Publicly available information. > If its just so we can have a counter on the home page, > probably not worth it. To some people no, to others yes. I could be quite inspirational to some people to see that number increasing. Please read the wiki to find the rationale for all this. Then, I for one would really like to hear how we can improve the proposals we have considered so far. cheers, John http://live.gnome.org/JohnWilliams _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
