On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 14:55 -0400, Jesse Hutton wrote:
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Germán Póo-Caamaño <gpoo gnome org>
wrote:
On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 13:10 -0400, Jesse Hutton wrote:
> Lets consider a concrete example.
>
> Before Gnome Shell was initially released, I (like many
others) didn't like
> the lack of a power off option in the system menu (or
anywhere on the
> desktop). I've been an on and off lurker on IRC for a while.
I brought up
> the concern a few times perhaps. At one point, I got into a
small debate
> with owen about the design/user experience trade-offs of the
issue. He made
> multiple specific arguments *against* having it in the menu
and for having
> suspend (which I found completely unconvincing). I made
multiple arguments
> *for* including it in the menu. It ended with him saying
he'd wasted enough
> time debating the issue.
This example is not an usability study, it was a debate
between 2 people
having different opinions.
I could also make the case in opposite direction, debates that
proven to
be right with the time, in both 2.x and 3.x cycles. The most
famous
that comes to my mind is workspaces versus viewports. Today
nobody
cares.
How do you know that nobody cares? It might be nice to actually have
the arguments for and against a given issue documented and archived.
It would at least provide some history and evidence as to why certain
decisions were made. Some people may find that interesting and
valuable.
I am pretty sure the discussion (and all the bike-shedding) are documented and archived in bugzilla and the mailing lists. For instance: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-May/msg00173.html Anyway, I do not want to start repeating the discussion over and over again. See http://ometer.com/free-software-ui.html for a good summary (replace GNOME 2 by GNOME 3 and you are done). -- Germán Poo-Caamaño http://calcifer.org/
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