Re: [issues] Prototype vs. design

[Kelly Lynn Martin]

On Mon, 6 Dec 1999 10:05:46 -0800 (PST), Deirdre Saoirse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>I agree. I find good design very hard to find, especially in the open
>source community. As I've been known to say, "in this bunch, software
>design is as popular as leprosy."

KDE seems especially prone to this.  They used to have a page up that
listed the "tenets" of KDE.  One of them was "Don't talk."  Well, if
you don't talk, how can you discuss design issues?  We used to make a
lot of fun of this on the #gimp channel, with random bursts of "Don't
talk!" and "FOCUS!" (another KDE "tenet").

GNOME seems to have put considerably more attention into design,
although perhaps not as much as they should.

It probably also helps that a lot of the people in the open source
community have little or no formal training.  Design is not something
that most people learn how to do on their own.

Kelly

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