<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Camilo Mesias <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:camilo@mesias.co.uk">camilo@mesias.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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</div>It's not that ridiculous if you think about it. It might be different<br>
to what you are used to from a Linux distro.<br>
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I'm thinking of lots of modern websites where the design and<br>
functionality has been changed*. These are leading sites that haven't<br>
got to where they are by alienating users. It is similar to changing<br>
the way the desktop works. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am sorry, but I don't agree. I meant what I said. It's horrible UX, even I can see that. Fedora is not Facebook or Twitter and even if you could compare a desktop operating system to a website, I'd say the way that these proprietary, closed systems are handling their design choices is nothing a volunteer-driven Linux distro should aspire to. As Nicu said, we already have way too many choices, questions and knobs as it stands. I don't want us to become one-happy-button MacOS, far from that, but we still need to be conscious of not confusing or annoying end users-</div>
<div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">As a gentle introduction to the changes,<br>
the user on first login is offered a tour of the new features which<br>
integrates nicely with a chance to change or set the optional bits of<br>
the interface. Actually I think that would work really well with Gnome<br>
3 if only someone had the time, the overall vision and the<br>
responsibility for making sure the users 'bought in' to the new<br>
design...</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Do you remember Windows XP? I haven't seen one single user in five years of part-time professional Windows end-user support that hasn't clicked away these tours immediately. People don't want them. People also want a nice default wallpaper without being asked questions.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If in doubt, I'd rather use the stock Gnome wallpaper than asking people questions first. It's a nice-looking wallpaper and my quarrel with adopting it lies on a very different level as I hope I've made clear in this thread already.</div>
<div><br></div><div>No offense, I didn't want to insult you, I just wanted to be clear about it.</div><div><br></div><div>Fab</div></div>