Re: GNOME Desktop Usability Survey

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

On 27/03/2005, at 11:32 AM, HASE (Human Aspects of Software 
Engineering) wrote:

> We are currently investigating the usability of the GNOME desktop 
> software.
> For that, we would highly appreciate it if you could follow the link 
> below
> and fill out a short survey we created titled the GNOME Desktop 
> Usability
> Survey (DESKUS):
>
> http://umbc.edu/hase/gnome-deskus-survey.html
>
> Many thanks for your help.

I think it's worth our raising a bit of awareness here: here's my added 
info at the end of that survey...

from Clytie

_____________________

Do you define localizers/translators as people "working in human 
interface"? I didn't know how to answer that one, as a Gnome l10n 
volunteer (gnome-vi).

There are a lot of issues important to localization: being able to 
display the characters of the language properly, being able to 
customize the fonts and date/time/currency/formats, text display 
suiting the characters (not cutting off accents) and most of all, full 
Unicode support.

Users of "other" languages worry most about: will my system/desktop 
environment display my language/culture settings properly? That's our 
main concern. Do the applications I'm using in Gnome support Unicode 
fully? Are the man pages translated? Can I rely on this system/desktop 
environment to supply up-to-date and helpful translations?

This is a human-interface issue which is crucial to the vast majority 
of current and future computer users. Think less about cute icons and 
more about whether the user is able to understand and use whatever the 
icon stands for.

Thankyou

Clytie Siddall, gnome-vi