[Sigia-l] Linus on usability

[Listera]

An interesting POV on usability from the father of Linux:

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> 
> Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally mot
> listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against
> listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing
> than useful to the user.

I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.

This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of
Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will
use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long
since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.

Please, just tell people to use KDE.

        Linus

<http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/desktop_architects/2005-December/000390.htm
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Is he right? :-)

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Ziya

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