Re: UI/String Review - Day 1

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 11:25, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 16:11, Glynn Foster wrote:
> > > Since I know what I want to remove, I just do a brave rm.
> > > Desktop endusers don't want to loose their files unneedly.
> > > Think rm -i.... it asks you weather you want to remove that file. Does
> > > it default to yes? No, why?
> > So many people argue on the list and vouch for 'Desktop endusers'. If
> > you are not one of these people, please shut up. We should do some
> > 'Usability Testing' [1] or something.
> 
> Being an end-user and a developer is completely ortogonal.
> 
> If I develop one app in a set of many apps, what am I? :)
> I'm quite probably and enduser of those other many apps...
> 
> And what I vouch for desktop endusers is mostly from my ''helpdesk''
> experience with my mother, my girlfriend and a lot of stupid colleagues
> at work...

dunno how this applies to GNOME though... our users are a sharp bunch.

jacob
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