On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeesha...@gnome.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Felipe Contreras > <felipe.contre...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Last time I suggested something like this the response was not so >> great, but lately I've feeling that there's a lot of dissatisfaction >> with GNOME 3. Why not find for good what people are thinking with an >> user-survey? > > Was it really necessary to start your mail with negativity?
Was it really necessary for you to point that out? >> It would be great if some sort of notification would popup directly on >> user's desktops, this way it can ensured that the maximum amount of >> people are notified. > > Assuming user is given the choice at first login if he/she wants to > participate, it is indeed a good idea. Would you be providing patches > for this? Maybe. If people agree to apply them. >> Otherwise, I think planet GNOME, reddit, twitter, >> Google+ and so on should give plenty of feedback. Maybe also contact >> Ars Technica, LWN, Phornix, and so on would help. > > Those sites will surely get us plenty of geeks but as I said to you > in person when I asked you to make this survey happen, there must be > at least 10% participation from people who can't be put in the 'geek' > category: ordinary people in non-technical professions. One way to > check that would be to ask a few simple questions like: > > * How often do you use terminal/console? * What is that? * When I have no other option * I always have some open * Is there anything else? I think that should be enough to distinguish geeks from "normal" users. > Also, most people are still on facebook so better advertise this on > facebook gnome3 page too. Yes. > Other than that, the questionare you came-up looks good. :) Thanks. Kudos go to the Git project, which has refined some of these questions over the years. -- Felipe Contreras _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
