Gareth France wrote: > On 21/02/13 21:14, Alex Cockell wrote: > >Hi folks > > > >reading the thread on Nautilus being messed up by the Gnome > >devs... someone commented on how MS users may be trading up on > >usability - if they are Windows 7 users - they'd be getting > >hampered. > > > >What is it that's led to the GNOME developers messing it up for > >their end-users anyway? Don't they want it widely used in > >production? > > > > > The myth that the 'typical' user needs a simplified interface as > choices and flexibility confuse them I think.
The thinking is not that choices and flexibility confuse them, it's that people are likely to get it wrong. Every time I've set out to 'improve' my DE by changing the fonts or sizes of things or whatever I've ended up regretting it; I am not a good UI designer, and I don't know what I like to use well enough to be able to actually implement it. This appears to go for most people. As far as I'm concerned, if software isn't nice to use out of the box then it's failed - GUI software needs good designers at least as much as it needs good developers. -- Avi -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
