KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/battery

[Celeste Lyn Paul]

Although I'm not a fan of the change, +1 for MoRpHeUz's practical and
positive attitude towards the decision. It's the only way stuff is
going to get done.

On Saturday 06 June 2009 08:58:47 am Artur Souza(MoRpHeUz) wrote:
> On Saturday 06 June 2009, 08:15 David Nolden wrote:
> > So you're talking about visions. The only clear vision I can see right
> > now is "Do whatever Aaron thinks is best, don't listen to users".
>
> Just my 2 cents for this discussion: while developing Canola2 (the most
> downloaded and used media player for maemo platforms) we had this forum
> where users could talk with us, etc.. We couldn't use IRC or mailing lists
> because this users were _really_ "average Joe" users. In this forum they
> used to complain about some bits and put wishes there and a lot of times we
> just didn't hear them because it was against "project vision" or because we
> thought it was not a good idea. In the end we really learned that the user
> don't know what he wants :). He thinks that he knows but he doesn't.
>
> That's why I think Aaron's and also Celeste's opinions are much more
> important on this subject than user's. Now comes the point sebas talked
> about: they diverged and even at this point we have to make a decision.
> sebas just chose one direction that is go with the maintainer's pov and
> it's not wrong (just as it would not be wrong to take celeste's opinion as
> she is the usability expert).
>
> Please guys, let's not make a storm in a cup of water: let's choose one
> behavior and see if users opens too many bugs for it and we fix it in the
> next versions. Don't fight with each other for a plasmoid's feature :)
>
> Cheers,
>
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> Artur Duque de Souza
> OpenBossa Research Labs
> INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia
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Celeste Lyn Paul
KDE Usability Project
usability.kde.org