Re: response to linus...?

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram redhat com>]

Hi

>  
>
> > I dont think be implied that absolute beginners to be idiots which
> > breaks down the whole message.
> >    
>
> linus said gnome's mentality was "users are idiots, and are confused
> by functionality"... does it really sound like he's talking about
> advanced users?
>
>  
Which to my mind is completely different from calling beginners as idiots.

> cool, we should just let everyone trash our image in every single
> website on earth, because that's not relevant to us.  what are we
> after all?  the gnome marketing team?  :)
>  
A better approach would be go through many of the common criticisms 
systematically and communicate which of these are design issues or bugs. 
Start out with the usual suspects like nautilus or the GTK file dialog 
box.  Linus is far from the only person having the same opinions so 
avoid targeting anyone in particular and just try and make the design 
decisions more transparent. This blog for example is a wonderful example 
to emulate

http://blogs.gnome.org/view/jamesh/2005/12/15/0



regards
Rahul