RE: [Usability] [Desktop_architects] Printing dialog and GNOME

["David Zulaica" <david pseudo-cyb org>]

Thank you for saying what needed to be said.


-----Original Message-----
From: usability-bounces gnome org [mailto:usability-bounces gnome org] On
Behalf Of Adam Williamson
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 12:52 PM
To: usability gnome org
Subject: [Usability] [Desktop_architects] Printing dialog and GNOME

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> > 
> > Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally mot
> > listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against
> > listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing
> > than useful to the user.
> 
> I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
> 
> This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of 
> Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will 
> use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long 
> since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
> 
> Please, just tell people to use KDE. 
> 
> 		Linus

Please don't feed the troll.
-- 
adamw