Re: Opinions about Gnome integration?

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 07/31/2004 10:30:11 AM, Darko Obradovic wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  As most of you noticed, I often make controverse suggestions. The   
> driving force behind this is that I really love the Gnome-2   
> philosophy,  although being an "IT-hardened power user" I guess, and  
> thus I'd like  balsa very much to fit more into this. There is a nice  
> story on  OSNews  about this:  
> http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7864
> [snip]
> Whether to spend my upcoming spare time working on Gnome-adaptions or   
> not. I think balsa could be a hot candidate against evolution to be   
> included in the Desktop, if evolution misses 2.8.

My opinion is that the any change that is being made must serve a  
purpose. I want to keep balsa simple - this is good for everybody - but  
not crippled. I am all for unifying the user interface as long as  
frequently used function remain accessible. I see Gnome-adaptation as  
making a program easy to use. A program is easy to use if the user  
never feels the need to change the preferences. If the preferences that  
people want to change anyway are easily accessible. If I was to work  
more on the user interface of balsa now, I would focus on such things  
like making keyboard navigation better because this really *adds* a  
value. I would very carefully consider all removals and weight gains  
and losses associated with them. This probably requires some effort,  
collecting opinions from the users, observing their actions and what  
annoys them, and some discussion as well.

Pawel