On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Felipe Contreras > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 20:50 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > > > Still the input from the user-base is not considered? > > > > > > > > How much a simple most-wanted-feature poll could hurt? > > > > > > Do the poll entries come with patches attached? If there is a feature > > > missing then file a bug and either wait for someone else to code it, > pay > > > someone to code it, or code it yourself. > > > > I find it difficult to achieve the 10x10 goal without knowing what the > > users really want. > > And I find it difficult to think that online polling indicates what > the users want (especially the 9.9999999% of the x10% who don't > already use GNOME.) > > http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/904-why-we-disagree-with-don-norman
I looked quickly at the article, and it appears to me that basically what is saying is: designing for yourself is good While I agree that eating your own dog food is good; I don't think that's a reason to stop looking for what your users need. This video would explain why it's good to search for what users need much better than I could: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/20 What I had in mind was something like Firefox's feature brainstorm[1] or Dell's ideastorm[2]. Best regards. [1] http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Feature_Brainstorming [2] http://www.dellideastorm.com/ -- Felipe Contreras _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
