Re: website contender (beta)

["E. A. Zen" <ericzen ez-net com>]

On 02/07/04 21:03:59, Charles Goodwin wrote:
> So I don't think we should be pushing GDB in front of them, that's  
> one
> way to confuse and intimidate end users.  ("What is this and why do I
> have to install it?  Shouldn't Office Software be simple?" etc etc)

Yes, I concur; it would be a better candidate for the Specialty Apps I  
mentioned before (whatever I called it).

For now.

Databases are becoming more and more integrated into the user  
experience.  Collections are using them in some way for images,  
contacts, music, bookmarks and so much more that in the future, many of  
the very-end-end-user types will probably expect to have a generic  
database handler.  The exception, of course, are those user who are  
actually short of total novices who have only just mastered click-and- 
point.

Now would also be a good time to define (as in outline the generic  
points of) the core GNOME Office applications.  Embeddability (coming  
eventually), no dataloss in exchange, similar XP/XAP functionality  
(long term) and so forth.  Lots of potential code sharing in the  
future.  Definitions are a good way to get an idea of how to sort the  
content seperate from the front page.

Thoughts free available, one newsletter at a time.

-Eric