On 8/28/06, Ben Monnahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While this may have been true 1-2 years ago, now I'm not so sure. My wife ... > make it to them the better IMHO. (Please understand I'm not asking for a > completely dumbed down F-Spot either, non-technical people are intelligent, > but we can't overload them. Its all about making it intuitive)
Well, it may be dependent on regions and whom you know. My personal experience (in Sweden) is that I don't know anyone whom I'd consider a "casual" user that uses Linux in any form. (Hopefully that will change though.) Also I agree with you that making a "intuitive" program is good. And that's enjoyed by "casual" and "expert" users alike. > As I said in my other email, I don't think we need to limit ourselves to > only serving the "casual" users. But I'd like to see us commit to usability > for these users first, and then add in other features for expert users where > possible. Plugins can hopefully big a help here, not just for > maintainability of the code, but allowing users to pick and choose what they > need. Your expert features I'm sure aren't the same as mine. Again it becomes a discussion about what features are for casual users and what is for expert users. Eg I'd say that versioning is for expert users. Consider that no other photo management program (that I know of) has this feature. However I'd also say that it's one of the most essential features in F-Spot. (It was pretty much *the* feature which made me use it.) And if you demonstrate it for casual users they are likely to find it just as invaluable as an expert user. One potential drawback with plugins that I see is that you can end up with a program which has a lot of good plugins which work well with the basic system but which behave strange with each other. /Marcus _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
