Re: Disliking gnome 3

[John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com>]

On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 09:15 +0300, Pasha R wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Giovanni Campagna
> <scampa giovanni gmail com> wrote:
> > Il giorno gio, 01/09/2011 alle 21.42 +0300, Pasha R ha scritto:
> >> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
> >> <awilliam whitemice org> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 18:16 +0300, Pasha R wrote:
> >> >> My problem is that shell is simply inconvenient to use and insulting
> >> >> attitude of developers
> >> >
> >> > I don't feel insulted at all.
> >> Good for you. I find an attitude commonly expressed on this and some
> >> other lists "we know better what you should want" insulting.
> >
> 
> First of all, thank you for an answer.
> 
> >
> > I concede that our solutions are not meant for everybody, as there may
> > be people with different conflicting requirements, but we're still
> > convinced they apply for the vast majority of our target user base. On
> 
> This is my first problem: what is your target user base? I don't think
> it is "advanced" users, since they usually want to customize their
> systems much more than allowed by current design. It is also probably
> not "novice" users - for example I don't see my mother typing
> application name anytime soon, and she will definitely feel lost in
> all these icons thrown into overview.

The problem is arguments like these are so anecdotal they become
uninteresting. For example, my partner has no difficulty with G3, typing
'music' launches rhythmbox (i.e. no need to know the program name) and
this icon based launcher is familiar to smartphone users.

John