Fwd: Re: Application duplication (was: Re: cdbakeoven)

[Thomas Zander]

On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 04:12:55AM -0700, Neil Stevens wrote:
> On Saturday April 20, 2002 04:07, Matthias Welwarsky wrote:
> > Neil Stevens wrote:
> > > Oh, good idea!  Forget our happy users now, let's make them work
> > > harder so that we can appease some hypotheical non-users!
> > >
> > > By the way, writing a recipe and coding are two different tasks.
> >
> > To the point, Neil, please.
> >
> > What's your argument? Other than attacks against other peoples opinion I
> > haven't read anything useful from you in this thread.
> 
> Has anyone said anything useful in this thread?  I'm challenging those who 
> disagree with the status quo to show why the status quo is bad, instead of 
> just calling it "stupid."
> 
> I feel that KDE is correct until proven otherwise.  The burden of proof 
> should be on those who want to make significant changes.  All the praise 
> KDE gets should not be dismissed.

This is exactly why most UIs don't get better; the coders think it is fine and
the users can't pinpoint why something needs changing.
As an intelligent poster somewhere else in this thread said; when a user has
a problem, he is right. There is a problem!

The reason KDE does get a lot of praise is b/c it does better then most on the 
UI part. But we are definitely not there yet.

-- 
Thomas Zander                                            zander at earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new
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