> > Let's not make this personal. > > I was refering to the difficulty to design interfaces for > functionality that seemed to be not completely understood by the > respective designer, according to his own words in the last IRC > discussion. I don't see how that's personal. It's a dilemma unrelated > to the actual person.
It was personal because you were talking about something specific to a particular person. Let's stick to discussing the proposal. :) > > Not true. I described a number of positive consequences of simplicity. > > Simplicity is great for every individual user as long as nothing that > he/she actually needs is removed. The problem is that the feature set > that people use is not a homogenous set. The design has to start with a > definition of the target audience. Only after that you can assert what > features your target audience are unlikely to need (and even then, > that's hard enough). Agreed. GNOME as a whole needs to define its target audience. Work is being done on a set of personas. That will help. Allan -- Jabber: allanpday AT gmail.com IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list