On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le jeudi 26 juillet 2007 à 10:54 +0200, Wouter Verhelst a écrit :
One thing I do not like about the GNOME usability philosophy is
precisely this: catering for the novice user is great, but the GNOME
usability philosophy caters for novice users *at the expense of
experienced users*.
This widespread belief is entirely untrue.
This is the proposition.
It is all about making things
understandable for the novice user without reducing functionality for
experienced users; that doesn't mean removing functionality, but rather
removing the *need* for some functionality or configurability.
Many Unix users are used to a high level of configurability, and it is
definitely frustrating not to encounter it when you are used to. But in
the end I find myself gaining a lot of time, because the only things
that are shown in the interface are the things I actually need.
I found (at least one) counter example: I never managed to get rid
of the stupid nautilus behavour to open new windows. I was even not
able to get rid of this nautilus thingy at all because killing it opens
a new one. I just renamed it and killed it to get rid of.
So the proposition was disproved by a counter example and thus is not true.
q.e.d.
Andreas.
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