On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Charlie Kester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Users can also contribute by helping to refine the requirements for > software. For example, my son is an animator and he and I have often > discussed various graphics tools. In his opinion, the Gimp is a > powerful tool which provides almost every tool or technique an artist > might want, but it's unusable because its user interface doesn't reflect > the way artists actually do their work. He says this isn't just that > they're used to Photoshop or whatever; there's something about the > nature of the task that the Gimp fails to accommodate in a natural, > effortless way. He says the Gimp feels like a tool designed by software > engineers rather than artists. Interesting analogy, and your overall point makes sense. Here's a question regarding the attitude towards moves to new software and the expectation it behave like $OTHER_PROGRAM. Photoshop had to be learned to be used initially. The questions are, does a user *want* to spend the time to learn a new interface? What do they gain by doing so? Is there a commercial drive behind the change? _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
