Re: [Usability]List policy, usability leadership, mission statement [Was: "widget"]

[Pat Costello <Patrick Costello Sun COM>]

Hi Sunnanvind, 

Honestly, I didn't mean to pick on you. I tried to stay general in my earlier 
mail, as really I am talking about UI changes in general that come from the 
usability alias. We documentors have had some surprises in the past with major 
changes suddenly popping up, and we had to re-document large chunks. Some of the 
design changes did bring clear benefits, others appeared to be arbitrary, other 
design changes seemed to detract from earlier useful features. Whereas we are 
perfectly willing to redo documentation where design changes are clearly 
beneficial, it is a bit frustrating to redo documentation in cases where the 
benefit is not so obvious. 

So I suppose we have got a bit sensitive about establishing the need for UI 
design changes. 

Sorry if I seemed to be getting at you, 

Pat


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> Pat Costello <Patrick Costello Sun COM> writes:
> > Well, if the list were just a high quality entropy source, I wouldn't be so 
> > worried. The fact that a discussion point can make it from the list to 
bugzilla, 
> > while the discussion is still in train, and while there is still a large 
degree 
> > of uncertainty around the need for the discussion point, shows that there is 
> > potential for a negative impact on the GNOME UI design. There does need to 
be 
> > some sort of regulated output from the usability alias.
> 
> 
> Please, would you give me a *break* already? Three people said put it
> in the Bugzilla and someone said "you haven't done it already" to me
> and I thought that I was breaking some rule here, that your policy was
> to put things in the 'zilla as soon as possible for discussion there.
> 
> Turns out I was wrong BIG TIME, turns out your policy was the other
>  way around, *Okay* I get it already.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> A comment after the recent Sun beta tester's long list of issues was
> "are you putting this in the bugzilla" to Calum. Was that a joke?
> 
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