On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 14:55 -0400, Jesse Hutton wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Germán Póo-Caamaño <[email protected]> > wrote: > On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 13:10 -0400, Jesse Hutton wrote: > > Lets consider a concrete example. > > > > Before Gnome Shell was initially released, I (like many > others) didn't like > > the lack of a power off option in the system menu (or > anywhere on the > > desktop). I've been an on and off lurker on IRC for a while. > I brought up > > the concern a few times perhaps. At one point, I got into a > small debate > > with owen about the design/user experience trade-offs of the > issue. He made > > multiple specific arguments *against* having it in the menu > and for having > > suspend (which I found completely unconvincing). I made > multiple arguments > > *for* including it in the menu. It ended with him saying > he'd wasted enough > > time debating the issue. > > This example is not an usability study, it was a debate > between 2 people > having different opinions. > > I could also make the case in opposite direction, debates that > proven to > be right with the time, in both 2.x and 3.x cycles. The most > famous > that comes to my mind is workspaces versus viewports. Today > nobody > cares. > > How do you know that nobody cares? It might be nice to actually have > the arguments for and against a given issue documented and archived. > It would at least provide some history and evidence as to why certain > decisions were made. Some people may find that interesting and > valuable.
I am pretty sure the discussion (and all the bike-shedding) are documented and archived in bugzilla and the mailing lists. For instance: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-May/msg00173.html Anyway, I do not want to start repeating the discussion over and over again. See http://ometer.com/free-software-ui.html for a good summary (replace GNOME 2 by GNOME 3 and you are done). -- Germán Poo-Caamaño http://calcifer.org/
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