Hi Rienout,
On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 09:30, Reinout van Schouwen wrote: > Shane, > > Op Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:48:25 +0000, schreef Shane O'Connor: > > > this is gonna be the biggest seller for Gnome. > > > ...if we want to get people to shift from Windoze... > > It irks me every time people talk about selling GNOME or using GNOME to > get people to shift from some other platform. [1] > > * That is not what GNOME is about * I don't think I was completely clear - I didn't mean to imply a coporate or commercial view point. I was talking with desktop adoption by all users in mind... > > GNOME is about making good, Free software. Not about sales targets, not > about competing with Microsoft. I agree, but we have to have a focus and I assume we want people to adopt the platform. As windoze is the biggest market player I also assume those users would be in our target audience. > But if we let our design > decisions be heavily influenced by such motives, I believe we'd be giving > up on our ideals. And the trolls saying that GNOME has been hijacked by > corporate types will be right after all. As it happens a lot of the feedback I've had on nautilus spatial mode is from friends and friends of friends who I've managed to introduce to Gnome - most are pretty clued in users and in some cases experienced programmers and pretty much all of them agree that spatial mode is way more confusing to new users. > [1] Also, have you considered the people who have never used a computer > before? To be honest I can't see any total newbies preferring spatial to browser but as I don't have any data or experience to back that up I could be way wrong ;) Thanks Shane -- ======================================= http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/shane/ ======================================= _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
