Thanks for restarting this discussion Dave. This is my first post to the foundation list. Hi all! :)
<snip> > Proposed community mantra: Beautiful computing freedom </snip> <snip> > The thing about a vision is that it easily makes it easier for you to > choose the right path at the fork in the road. </snip> Vision is useful from the point of view of interface design. I'd love to see a vision for this articulated somewhere. On the desktop, GNOME should be aiming to produce interfaces which are beautiful, elegant and simple; they should enable people to get their stuff done without getting in the way; they should be designed for the majority of users as well as the technically minded. Part of our vision for the desktop should be to produce interfaces (and user experiences) which compete with our rivals'. A vision for our application interfaces has been largely absent from the 3.0 effort. We should be using strategic milestones like these to radically improve the quality of our core applications, and we should be using them to articulate our aspirations for our desktop experience. How cool would it be to give Nautilus, Epiphany or Evolution a facelift for 3.0, for example? Another point about the quality of our interfaces - we need to give designers a greater role in the development process if we are going to be competitive. Fortunately, GNOME has an amazing, talented design community; but we need to embrace and empower those designers. They're the ones who can provide the vision and who will enable GNOME to be competitive. Oh, hey, I just discovered the Evolution express work that is being done [1]! This is cool! This is something that people need to know about! This is something that needs to be a part of the 3.0 story! Let's make sure that the design of this is magnificent. Allan [1] http://live.gnome.org/Evolution/Art -- aday on irc.gnome.org _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
