Sorry for the late response, I have been in transit to another conference and am just now catching up on my email...answer inline...
On Saturday 03 November 2007 17:22:57 SzerencseFia wrote: > Lets say you start to use your newly downloaded/burned Ubuntu Hardy and > the system is clean, nothing on it only entirely default. This is the > most common place to start with the new releases, is it? > > Take it into account that most people are not designer and they have to > be treated as such whom are not an expert in theming. Our coordination > should lead us in that direction where simple user is the target, their > level of knowledge, understanding to make theme changes on the system. > Their limitation is the understanding, what do they understand and able > to do with their Linux system. > > Why I say this? I do think our motto has to be SIMPLICITY and we have to > present to the users the freedom of choice as the main direction in Open > Source world. > > Therefore: we should present one dark and one light theme from the same > type but with different color. In fact it leaves one question open which > one would be default in the release. Kenneth, do we have possibility to > survey few hundreds of simple users? Until now we only have the possiblity to survey people online (not in person)...more importantly the evaluation of such information is something that is quie problematic - a few hundred people would probably not be enough and it would be very hard to find even a few hundred people who are not already ubuntu users (as they are our target audience). -- Ken -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
