Am Mon, 26 Sep 2005 23:04:54 -0400 (EDT) schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I've always been baffled by the idea of an openusability standard. > Usability is quite different for a lot of people. My grandma's idea of > usability is much different to a mine, and one of the great things > about linux is it can create desktops that cater to both. Having some > sort of standard for this seems to defeat the variety of choice. > Certainly some things will approach a similar state, but that should > happen as a natural evolution as different approaches explore and > fail/succeed as they will. Constrain that system and you may > potentially miss some novel advances along the way. > > As for those using E17, going to people who probably dont even use or > are attracted to the enlightenment desktop for suggestions (despite > their 'expertness') is really quite odd! Glad you still value our > feedback raster :)
Useability is also a question of "good" defaults. I'm not sure, but do you really think there're more users that use this sloopy mouse function (which is default) than the focus by click mode? ;-) Only one example. I think the default settings should be what most users like and not what the main developers like. - Only my small opinion! There're more examples like this... regards Andreas ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
