On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Christoph Thiel wrote: > On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Aschwin Marsman wrote:
Dear Christoph, Thanks for your quick reply. > > Looks like a promising project to me, but I have two remarks: > > - I can't view the videos, time outs occur. > > The server that delivers the videos seems to be down. I'v escalated this > to Novell IS&T. The server wasn't available yesterday evening when I tried again, but it is available now. It would have been wise to make sure the website and it's contents are available if Novell is putting a press release on the web though. > > - The video's are taken from the Ximian website, which I would not > > describe as desktop neutral if you want to perform usability tests on > > different parts of the KDE and GNOME desktops. > > If you look at the videos, you'll find that both KDE and GNOME were I couldn't look at the videos yesterday, but I'm currently watching one. > tested. Quoting betterdesktop.openSUSE.org: "Over the past year, we have > conducted many usability tests on different parts of the KDE and GNOME > desktops." That's not my point, I know they did test on both KDE and GNOME, but I can't see ximian as an unbiased entity when you are doing those tests. Have they developed improvements for KDE since Novell took them over? > > Is Novell's desktop future on GNOME? > > No. Neither GNOME nor KDE are the privileged Novell desktop environment - > they both have the same status. But what about specific installation tooling and new applications: I don't hope Novell is creating a Yast specific for GNOME, one for KDE and one written in MONO? It could be done off course by using something like an observer like pattern: create the functionality (backend) once and have different views on it using a GNOME/KDE/... frontend. What are the ideas on this for the OpenSUSE project? As a usability example: I would like to have the ability to make some improvements (in my opinion) to e.g. you: When downloading the patches and everything went will I don't want to press the Finish button myself, I would like a checkbox that gives me the option to specify the behaviour I described above. When will development be open for these kind of issues, and who will decide if a proposed patch will be included or not? Some short info about myself to put my remarks above in place: I'm a software developer based in the Netherlands, started in 1990 with Ultrix on a VAX and started with the SLS Linux distribution in 1993. I have developed technical software which mostly also included user interfaces for e.g. wafer steppers, air/vessel traffic control, radiotherapy and I'm currently working on self-checkout solutions for supermarkets. I've almost always worked on a UNIX/Linux platform. > Regards > Christoph Have a nice weekend, Aschwin Marsman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marsman.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
