Re: 3.6 Feature: IBus/XKB integration

[Sergey Udaltsov <sergey udaltsov gmail com>]

> I think that our past experience with "surveys" done in the context of
> GNOME have shown that this sort of survey isn't useful.
How would you check the user's opinions then? To get some objective,
measurable results, that would not depend on interpretation by biased
(to non-geeks) decision makers?

> Taken to the extreme, as an example you'll be familiar with: if you
Obviously, your survey results are only as good as your survey
environment and audience. Does that mean that any effort in futile?

> So any survey is likely to be biased, which makes surveys not so useful.
Sorry, I do not quite understand that remark. Are you saying there is
no way to find the audience that would be unbiased? Are you just
implying that the current userbase of GNOME is so geekish that fair
survey among existing users would only represent the POV of geeks?