Re: [Usability] Overthinking things.

[kerberos piestar net]

Quoting Diego Moya <turingt gmail com>:

> 2009/12/9 Lincoln Yeoh  wrote:
> > At 07:34 PM 12/9/2009, kerberos wrote:
> > I think in many cases having/requiring the user/"bug" submitter "talk"
> > directly to the developer may not be the best way of doing things. And
> > instead someone else should be between the two.
> >
> > So I suggest that this sort of thing is best done by someone else.
>
> Lincoln, as I see it this work is best assumed by distributions.
> Typically distro users post their concerns in user forums, and many
> times someone with more technical knowledge offers to file a bug in
> their regard. This addresses your concerns, as distro workers are more
> likely to feel pressed by users to solve this kind of bugs affecting
> end users.

There are generally only forums for support, and then they are  
generally problem solving.  New ideas and bugs have no real place in  
any of the forums I have ever visited and are generally badly  
recieved.  If you want to discuss the fact that Gimp is the usability  
equivelant of being hit in the face with a brick (and what to do about  
it) there is no venue for that pretty much anywhere.  It's just cross  
your fingers and hope they fix it eventually.