On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:24:28 +0200 Andreas Volz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> 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... my aim is to have a few defaults. thats part of the install wizard TODO item. ie you run e17 for the first time and it asks "do you prefer windows-style or unix-style management?" for example and then sets up keybindings and focus policies etc. based on a PROFILE for that default. maybe offer a few of these. for NOw there is just 1 default - and likely always will be, but the idea is to have several config receipies that are available the first time you run E. this then nicely moves this whole debate to "who cares - make a profile for it and let the user decide" :) but i do agree - the real issue is DEFAULTS. what is sane/nice/usable as default for most. BUt everyone is different, so maybe provide more than 1 default to let them get CLOSER to what they would like mroe quickly. :) but the key here is having enough options to fiddle with in order to create a way of working so it works well in that environment. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
