Re: GNOME user survey 2011 (v2)

[Frederic Crozat <fred crozat net>]

2011/8/2 Felipe Contreras <felipe contreras gmail com>:
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 18:35 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>>> After going through all the feedback, here's the second version of the
>>> proposed survey.
>>>
>>> There is a proposal to delay the survey until 3.2 is released, to try
>>> to avoid some of the initial negative feedback of 3.0, I guess. If
>>> this is delayed for 3.2, perhaps there could be a small piece of
>>> software that pops up a notification for this, and perhaps some
>>> notifications in the future.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> === 01. Which of the following images best resemble your desktop? ===
>>> (images of various desktops)
>>>
>>>  * GNOME 2
>>>  * GNOME 3
>>>  * Unity
>>>  * KDE
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> === 03. Which GNOME version(s) are you using? ===
>>> (multiple choice, with other)
>>>
>>>  + 3.2
>>>  + 3.0
>>>  + 2.20 - 2.32
>>>  + 2.10 - 2.19
>>>  + 2.0 - 2.9
>>>  + pre 2.0
>>>  + not using it currently
>>>
>>>  + other, please specify
>>
>> You expect the person answering the questionnaire to not be able to
>> recognise GNOME in question 1 (and identify it from a picture) then be
>> able to tell you which version they're using in question 3?
>
> I think people don't have any problem finding "About" in any system
> and get the version of the software. However, if your survey software
> has the option of adding notes on a question, we could add a bit of
> instructions. At least the online survey software that I found didn't
> have that option.

If the survey is started by a "local / installed" software, it should
be smart enough to detect the running environment and not ask the user
at all.

-- 
Frederic Crozat