ot;, not "since many
years". I don't know if the marketing team has any guidelines about if/when
it's acceptable to make grammatical corrections to direct quotes, but you might
consider it… in a formal press release, any poor grammar might seem a bit
unprofessional.
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>
> "GNOME 3.8, the latest update of the free software project which continues to
> refine and redefine the concept of the user experience."
Forgot to say I also think this sentence should read "that continues to" rat
n the
other hand, if we didn't believe GNOME 3 was a superior experience, there would
be no reason to have stopped working on GNOME 2… and 'Lite' does perhaps
actually convey a suitability for less capable hardware, which is less obvious
with 'Classic'.)
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On 15 Feb 2013, at 10:52, Olav Vitters wrote:
> Names have been thought of:
> - Traditional
> - Classic
GNOME Lite? :)
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s has to be one of the poorest 'infographics' I've seen (and
that in general, if it's mostly just some numbers in a big font, it's not
really an infographic at all).
That's not to say GNOME couldn't do a decent one, though.
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a hyperlink
-- bad for accessibility, and just generally for anyone quickly scanning the
page. The link text should describe where the link is going.
Cheeri,
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e
>
> GNOME-3 - Free, utilitarian, inspiring
A pity that "Inspiration is Free" already seems to have been taken... although
by what, exactly, I'm not sure: <http://inspirationisfree.com/
Cheeri,
Calum.
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cause it's in breach of the logo
guidelines, and it just makes the whole thing look too 'busy' IMHO.
(Also, shouldn't the text around the edge say "Friends of GNOME", rather than
"Friends of Gnome"?)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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On 15 Oct 2009, at 05:44, Guy Lunardi wrote:
Stormy suggested we reach out to the usability team to see what they
think.
FWIW, here's the reply I sent to Guy's message to the usability list.
Cheeri,
Calum.
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ed to clarify somewhere in the process that
this is US dollars people are donating, as opposed to CA/AU/other kind
of dollars? (I know they will find out when they get to the PayPal
stage anyway.)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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r right
now, as it really needs a significant rewrite in the near future.
Cheeri,
Calum.
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Any opinions
)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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marketing-list ma
kaging system:
<http://opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/testing/projects/new-app/webinstall/
>
Cheeri,
Calum.
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t;
"Do you use..." question has options for "on Windows" and "on KDE",
but no option for "on Mac OS X", which seems like a bit of an
oversight...
Cheeri,
Calum.
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ng our GNOME 1.2 usability study, some of our
participants memorably asked "what's the fried egg for?" :)
Other than that, a (well-designed) flower might be a pretty good
call-- it has some history in GNOME, and it symbolises all those
hippie values that are shared by the op
rt of the body :) Even an open palm, like the GPE logo, is
potentially offensive in some places. (Greece? I think it was
something originally used by the Byzantines, anyway...)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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ould
because it's poorly written, or leaks some memory every now and again,
most users probably won't even notice.
Cheeri,
Calum.
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x27;s
foot logo, which may obstruct GNOME promotion in
some way.
Yep, it's been brought up from time to time. I actually first
mentioned it back in 2001!
<http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-2-0-list/2001-October/msg00264.html
>
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even that only takes us up to GNOME 2.16.)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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screenreaders, costs $895.)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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fonts on small displays. But
that's not always a realistic constraint for complex dialogs.
Cheeri,
Calum.
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Any
HC themes up-to-date, and haven't done a great job
recently), but it's high on my list to rectify for 2.26. And perhaps
it would be good to make a GNOME Goal out of it, too.
Cheeri,
Calum.
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ively on Dec 18th and Nov
25th. It will also be in an upcoming Mandriva 2009 (due out on Oct
9th -
before Ubuntu, in fact).
And also OpenSolaris 2008.11, to be released in November (don't know
the exact date yet, though...)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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est features in each release :) (Although one problem that's
always existed with that idea is that not all distros ship all GNOME
features, and/or add their own...)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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s-- secure desktops are a
pretty important market for Solaris. Best contact there is probably
Stephen Browne (cc'ed).
Cheeri,
Calum.
[1] Bit out of date now, but some info at
http://blogs.sun.com/Stephen/entry/trusted_jds_screenshots
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On 12 Mar 2008, at 21:56, Shaun McCance wrote:
>
> On a more productive note, I've always loved the "official
> desktop of happy people" tag line. It's very positive, and
> very mass-appeal.
Ergo, "The official [mug|beverage] of happy people"...?
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g, the main distro's own user forums etc.
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Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsyste
promoting, building...
> >
> > We have the HIG. We have freedesktop.org. What else?
>
> Note that freedesktop.org things are not standards: they're
> specifications :-)
For that matter, the HIG things aren't standards either, they're
guidelines...
Cheeri,
Calum
eeky tool.
Have to say it actually took me quite a while to figure out what the
ring was actually showing me, too... it's pretty, but I can't say it's
the most intuitive visualization of disk space usage I've ever seen.
Cheeri,
Calum.
>
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http://andreasn.se/diverse/temp/king-size/evince.svg
FWIW, I think these would look better without the writing at the
bottom...
Cheeri,
Calum.
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On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 18:23 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
> Calum Benson wrote:
> > "Give a presentation on GNOME at your local Linux User Group": Bearing
> > in mind that GNOME doesn't just run on Linux, could we spread the word
> > even more by phrasing this s
page.
"Give a presentation on GNOME at your local Linux User Group": Bearing
in mind that GNOME doesn't just run on Linux, could we spread the word
even more by phrasing this so that [Open]Solaris, FreeBSD (et al.) user
groups don't feel left out...?
Cheeri,
Calum.
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On 14 Feb 2007, at 16:02, Joachim wrote:
> On 2/13/07, Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 11:59 +, Joachim wrote:
>>
>> > But for this to happen, we need the HIG to be updated, and for
>> that to
>> > happ
till M$ sue their asses, I wonder :/
Cheeri,
Calum.
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Any opinions are personal and not necessarily t
me.org anyway (or has that plan changed
again?)
Anyway, I really do intend to start working on the HIG again when I have
time, but that's just something I never seem to have much of these
days :/
Cheeri,
Calum.
>
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On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 15:59 +, Calum Benson wrote:
> It's easy enough to do-- infodesign.com.au has a nice one-page summary
> of card sorting and other common usability techniques:
> http://infodesign.com.au/usabilityresources/design/cardsorting.asp
(See also
http://www.inf
but I know you hadn't even really started
planning this stuff until then.
Cheeri,
Calum.
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Any opinions are pers
oking at
on the home page, and why should I ever need to visit an About page--
shouldn't all the other pages cover everything 'about' GNOME that I'd
ever want to know? (Btw, has anyone done any card-sorting type
exercises to check that the categories we think make sense
ginal idea I had put the GNOME logo right in the middle
(to tie in with the "centre of the GNOME universe" tagline):
http://www.gnome.org/~calum/uk-flyer.svg
but it was a bit dull otherwise :/
Cheeri,
Calum.
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> entries, and that they are preferably "shallow", so avoid deep
> hierarchies.
This is indeed pretty standard usability advice, although as usual with
this sort of thing it's not completely cut and dried. Some more useful
analysis/references here:
http://www.humanfactors.com/
So perhaps we'd need to set up
something like gnome.org/filemanager as well...
Cheeri,
Calum.
>
> On 7/20/06, Thomas Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Calum Benson wrote:
>> > On 20 Jul 2006, at 07:59, Quim Gil wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >> Ok
On 20 Jul 2006, at 13:27, Calum Benson wrote:
>
> Is there really any need for the intermediate "projects" level in the
> URL, btw? I always find it unbelievably convenient that the home
> page for every major Apple application is just http://www.apple.com/
> , for ex
hem.
Is there really any need for the intermediate "projects" level in the
URL, btw? I always find it unbelievably convenient that the home
page for every major Apple application is just http://www.apple.com/
, for example.
Cheeri,
Calum.
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undling them together in a coherent whole of benefits accrued.
>
> Why would end users use GNOME and thus Linux
Or Solaris, or FreeBSD... :)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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the persona photos on your
cubicle wall so they're always in your thoughts when you're writing
or designing stuff :)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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agree, but if nothing else I now know we have somewhere to put
better profiles when we have them :)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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to keep up with mailing lists,
IRC, bugzilla, gnomesupport.org...
I hate wikis :)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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