"Documents" path usability issues.

[Scott Wheeler]

On Tuesday 09 August 2005 8:45, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> I would like to think better of you than the conclusion I have logically
> reached regarding this posting to kde-usability-devel.  Since you
> presumptuously dismissed what I said, the correct term is arrogance.

I believe you've misunderstood the role of this mailing list and potentially 
some of the negativity was because of this.

This mailing list was in a way created as a reaction to the "suggestion box" 
that kde-usability has become.

There are places where it may be relevant to discuss the development model of 
KDE and how engineering practices fit into that, but this is not that place.

If you look through the (fortunately not so huge) archives of this list you'll 
notice that it's mostly neither users nor developers discussing things here, 
but those who have put a focused effort into becoming knowledgable usability 
folks.  I think this list is largely for discussions between them and the 
occasional note from others bringing an issue to their attention.

For those of us that have not spent the time to become usability folks 
(studying the methods, reading appropriate literature, etc.) -- myself 
included -- I think it's best to leave this location as a haven where those 
sorts of discussions can happen without noise from us.  I consider myself 
largely an interested observer and occasional agitator.  :-)

Feel free to respond to me personally on this, but please keep these sorts of 
meta-discussions away from this list.  They've happened elsewhere and this 
just isn't a relevant location for such.  (As such I won't respond further on 
this thread on-list.)

Cheers,

-Scott

-- 
I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, 
you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to 
yourself, "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well that would be enough 
immortality for me.
-E. W. Dijkstra