Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Luc Pionchon
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 03:34, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeesha...@gnome.orgwrote: [snip] Maybe they all lied? Don't you think it is a bit early to speculate on results? (...) Overall I can see already one clear result, even before the poll has started: We do not know who is using GNOME.

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 19:53, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: All the questions after this assume a knowledge of GNOME and how our community works. That's fine if you are polling developers. If you are polling average users, then I think it's not worth asking. Another issue that I

Rethinking GnomeGoals

2011-08-19 Thread Djohn Heist
Hello hackers GnomeGoals have been rather stale lately. Im willing to invest some time in bringing it up to date. Right now it seems like the included modules is a mix of old definitions (desktop, platform etc). Some modules are even deprecated by now. Would it be feasible and advantageous

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Allan Day
Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeesha...@gnome.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: Nothing is ever perfect, but having at least some results is better than

Re: Rethinking GnomeGoals

2011-08-19 Thread Javier Jardón
On 19 August 2011 00:05, Djohn Heist djohnhe...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello hackers Helllo Djohn, Would it be feasible and advantageous to move the GnomeGoals to a structure based on the new module definitions like suites-core, apps, world? Indeed, It would really great if you can help with this.

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 3:34 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeesha...@gnome.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeesha...@gnome.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Felipe

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeesha...@gnome.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Patryk Zawadzki
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: Are you serious? That totally and completely speculative and unrealistic. Have you ever participated in making a survey? I have, as I have explained, for the Git survey. In my experience, only the people that

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Patryk Zawadzki pat...@pld-linux.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: Are you serious? That totally and completely speculative and unrealistic. Have you ever participated in making a survey? I have, as

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote:  I didn't say this so far because it might sound like I am trying to make a joke but since you still insist on your assertions about the survey, I feel I must say this: How do you know people in general like to

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Luc Pionchon
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 14:33, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Patryk Zawadzki pat...@pld-linux.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: Are you serious? That totally and completely

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Luc Pionchon pionchon@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 03:34, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeesha...@gnome.org wrote: [snip]  Maybe they all lied? Don't you think it is a bit early to speculate on results? (...) Overall I can see already one clear

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Luc Pionchon
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 13:14, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: We already have a wealth of data about peoples' experiences with GNOME 3 Allan, this is interesting, what is the main pointer to access this data? ___ desktop-devel-list mailing

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeesha...@gnome.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote:  I didn't say this so far because it might sound like I am trying to make a joke but since you still insist on your assertions

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Allan Day
Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeesha...@gnome.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:45 AM,

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Zeeshan Ali

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com wrote: On Fri 19 Aug 2011 13:33, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com writes: That's a reasonable alternative. How about pleased? Any other people have an opinion? You present yourself as reasonable by adjusting on the

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Andy Wingo
On Fri 19 Aug 2011 13:33, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com writes: That's a reasonable alternative. How about pleased? Any other people have an opinion? You present yourself as reasonable by adjusting on the small points, but you ignore the feedback of greater importance. My

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Sam Thursfield
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com wrote: On Fri 19 Aug 2011 13:33, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com writes: That's a reasonable alternative. How about pleased? Any other

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Richard Hughes
On 19 August 2011 14:13, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: Is there anyone in the universe able to create a user survey worthy of GNOME? Can you convince him of doing so? Do your survey with the questions you want, and come to your own conclusions. Blog about them if you want.

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Frederic Muller
On 08/19/2011 09:13 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com wrote: On Fri 19 Aug 2011 13:33, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com writes: That's a reasonable alternative. How about pleased? Any other people have an opinion? You

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 19 août 2011 à 16:08 +0300, Felipe Contreras a écrit : It's easy to throw empty criticism. Provide *suggestions*. Well, here’s a suggestion: since nobody knows how to address the correct target population or how to interpret the results, I suggest to spend our time fixing bugs

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Maciej Marcin Piechotka
On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 16:08 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: Likewise, 'happy' will be thought of differently by different people (a very odd word to include in a questionnaire, if you don't mind me saying): I think everyone understands the word happy. /ME wipes a mouthful of coffee

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Alan Cox
Gathering feedback does not necessarily require an online user survey. As stated, for a project which currently targets, among others, users who do not care what parts of their operating system can be labelled GNOME a survey is not a very reliable way of gathering feedback. Have you ever

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Frederic Muller fr...@gnome.org wrote: On 08/19/2011 09:13 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com wrote: On Fri 19 Aug 2011 13:33, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com writes: That's a reasonable

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le vendredi 19 août 2011 à 16:08 +0300, Felipe Contreras a écrit : It's easy to throw empty criticism. Provide *suggestions*. Well, here’s a suggestion: since nobody knows how to address the correct target population or

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Sam Thursfield sss...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com wrote: On Fri 19 Aug 2011 13:33, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 August 2011 14:13, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: Is there anyone in the universe able to create a user survey worthy of GNOME? Can you convince him of doing so? Do your survey with the

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:37:33PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: Doing nothing achieves nothing, doing something achieves learning. You may well not learn what you intended but you will learn something including quite possibly how to do future surveys better. Any survey that isn't a carefully

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:37:33PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: Doing nothing achieves nothing, doing something achieves learning. You may well not learn what you intended but you will learn something including quite

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Jonathon Jongsma
On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 19:42 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 August 2011 14:13, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: Is there anyone in the universe able to create a user survey worthy of GNOME?

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Alan Cox
Any survey that isn't a carefully controlled randomly selected sample of users doesn't result in learning. It results in data that forms some You need truely or reasonably random samples for certain kinds of activities and analysis in particularly quantitative analysis when you want to

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Stormy Peters
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Sam Thursfield sss...@gmail.com wrote: Gathering feedback does not necessarily require an online user survey. Indeed, do you have a better suggestion? There are several

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Sam Thursfield sss...@gmail.com wrote: Gathering feedback does not necessarily require an online user

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Jonathon Jongsma jonat...@quotidian.org wrote: On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 19:42 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 August 2011 14:13, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Richard Hughes
On 19 August 2011 18:42, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, I just wanted to make things clear. In fact, if they cared about user feedback, there would be some numbers available somewhere, and I wouldn't have to do this. We're not asking you to do anything. Please just

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread William Jon McCann
Really ought to stay out of this thread but there is one point that is important to address below. On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: But again, as I said, if there's no survey on Earth you could trust, just ignore the results. Results by

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 08:03:45PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: I can only think of one reason why somebody would provide criticism without suggestions for improvement... 1. Because they cannot think of a good suggestion.

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 August 2011 18:42, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, I just wanted to make things clear. In fact, if they cared about user feedback, there would be some numbers available somewhere, and I

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 08:14:25PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: Any survey that isn't a carefully controlled randomly selected sample of users doesn't result in learning. Unless the biases are identified, which

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Matthew Garrett
(Resend: Managed to leave d-d-l off Cc: by accident) On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 06:15:03PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: Any survey that isn't a carefully controlled randomly selected sample of users doesn't result in learning. It results in data that forms some You need truely or reasonably

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Stormy Peters
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: I am not being aggressive. All I am asking is for clarification; is there *anything* I could do to make the survey more acceptable to you guys, or are you opposed to the very idea of having a user survey

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Luc Pionchon
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 21:20, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: The people most likely to respond to an irritating popup that disrupts their work are people who ... ... do not use GNOME 3. GNOME 3 is designed to reduce distraction and interruption and to put you in control. Our

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Luc Pionchon
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 14:46, Luc Pionchon pionchon@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 13:14, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: We already have a wealth of data about peoples' experiences with GNOME 3 Allan, this is interesting, what is the main pointer to access this data?

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v2)

2011-08-19 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 18:35 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: What do you think? Keep in mind that Gnome 3 just hasn't been around for very long. Right now Gnome 3 is most likely only being used by technical people, Linux enthusiasts, etc. - it has not trickled down to end users yet. We may have

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 08:14:25PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: Any survey that isn't a carefully controlled randomly selected sample of

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Richard Hughes
On 19 August 2011 20:26, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: ...To me GNOME is hitting everything in the room as it's going forward, and saying; I'm fine, I know where I'm going... To me, the sun is shining through the windows of a freshly redecorated room. If you have specific

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: (Resend: Managed to leave d-d-l off Cc: by accident) On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 06:15:03PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: Any survey that isn't a carefully controlled randomly selected sample of users doesn't result in

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 August 2011 20:26, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: ...To me GNOME is hitting everything in the room as it's going forward, and saying; I'm fine, I know where I'm going... To me, the sun is

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:53:46PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: If you went back to 1991 and wanted a production-quality kernel within a year, Linux probably wouldn't be your starting point. There'd be a learning process involved with setting up a professional-quality survey team, and

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: I am not being aggressive. All I am asking is for clarification; is there *anything* I could do to make the survey more acceptable to you

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:26:08PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: Yes, because you have no idea how big the population is. Maybe 10 million is the total population and it's representative. Maybe it's 50% of the population, disproportionately biased towards those of a given prior opinion.

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:05:26 +0100 Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:53:46PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: If you went back to 1991 and wanted a production-quality kernel within a year, Linux probably wouldn't be your starting point. There'd be a

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:26:08PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: Yes, because you have no idea how big the population is. Maybe 10 million is the total population and it's representative. Maybe it's 50% of the

Where is the data?

2011-08-19 Thread Giovanni Campagna
I'm sorry I couldn't read through the whole GNOME Survey v4 thread, but it was just too long. What I read though is that data was collected and extists. Now I'd like to simply ask: where is it? Where we developers can find real cold numbers backing out the designs we're asked to implement? Where

Re: Where is the data?

2011-08-19 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 19 August 2011 19:00, Giovanni Campagna scampa.giova...@gmail.com wrote: As a specific example of unscientific user testing, I got a friend of mine to try GNOME 3 at the desktop summit, and when it was time to shutdown he just asked me, because he found no way and he thought it was a bug.

Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v4)

2011-08-19 Thread Benjamin Otte
Felipe Contreras felipe.contreras at gmail.com writes: That doesn't change the fact that everyone understands the word happy. http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kahneman_the_riddle_of_experience_vs_memory.html ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list