On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 20:37, Mark Finlay wrote: > > > (Let me also echo Seth's sentiment that we should in no way listen to > > polls on gnomedesktop.org. ;-) The "real desktop market" by which I > > mean the easiest 5% of Microsoft market share for us to claim, in > > order to get started as an interesting desktop OS, is pretty much by > > definition going to be _totally_ silent on _all_ of our forums. If you > > know enough about computers to distinguish GNOME from the rest of the > > OS, and post to a forum, you are not a typical desktop end user, _at > > all_. End of story. Your needs/wants are going to be totally > > different.) > > AFAICS , what I see from yourself and Seth is over-anxiousness to break > with Gnome's image as being the hacker's desktop. Don't alienate and > dismiss what is after all the majority of your users - the Hackers. That's why you saw the results you saw on gnomedesktop.org. That, and the fact that the control-center shell is prettier than what nautilus shows. > > Appart from that, most of the users of the forum are 'users' - that's > the idea. Hackers have their lists - users have their forum - most of > their problems are a joke for myself or anyone else on this list to fix > - but I set up the forum to help the "new and un-experienced" users with > GNOME. So the forum users are EXACTLY who you should be listening to. > These are the users who's friends aren't hackers - these are the people > who are a single gnome user in a sea of microsoft - these are the users > who will tell their m$ using friends if they like gnome and feel that > their opinion counts - these are the users who represent what your > average microsft users thinks of GNOME. > > It's a good thing that none of them read this list. Havoc, you're a very > well respected hacker - an insult from you holds as much weight as a > complement, And i'm not one to tell you what to do - but yeah mmm.... Where did you see insults ? I didn't see any. <bollocks stuff snipped> Tada -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
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