Re: [Design-team] The cursor

[Hristo Petkov]

Hi Guys,

Do you really think that the professional developers of Ubuntu and Microsoft for example
have really the personal preferences they propose on the market.

It's all about the users and the striving to get as much of the market share as
possible.
The underestimation of the competition and the users has never been be 'a good
idea'.

Why don't you make a feasibility study to see that most of the users don't like to
look professional - they are fond of 'lighting effects' and 'cool
things'.

Yet there is a large share of people who want to look professional.

Maybe an option should be made to customise the desktop according to the personal
preferences, thus the 'philosophy dispute' about the design image could be ended.

Have a nice day,
Regards

The cursor

[Kris Thomsen]

Hi Hristo,

Yes, some people like lightning effects and funny gimmicks.
But I think it's more important to look professional and clean if we want to
get to a bigger market - specially in the enterprise-section.

If Linux/GNOME/Fedora was all about funny gimmicks I wouldn't use it,
because it's hard to take serious.
So, f.ex. your cursor idea would make me reconsider my distro of choice -
not because it's hard to change, but because we will look like a distro
which is all about funny-looking stuff.

// Kris

2010/2/22 Hristo Petkov <vaeood(a)yahoo.com&gt;

>  Hi Guys,
>
>  Do you really think that the professional developers of Ubuntu and
>  Microsoft for example have really the personal preferences they propose on
>  the market.
>
>  It's all about the users and the striving to get as much of the market
>  share as possible.
>  The underestimation of the competition and the users has never been be 'a
>  good idea'.
>
>  Why don't you make a feasibility study to see that most of the users don't
>  like to look professional - they are fond of 'lighting effects' and 'cool
>  things'.
>
>  Yet there is a large share of people who want to look professional.
>
>  Maybe an option should be made to customise the desktop according to the
>  personal preferences, thus the 'philosophy dispute' about the design image
>  could be ended.
>
>  Have a nice day,
>  Regards
>
>
>
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The cursor

[Nicu Buculei]

On 02/22/2010 09:54 AM, Hristo Petkov wrote:
>  Why don't you make a feasibility study to see that most of the users
>  don't like to look professional - they are fond of 'lighting effects'
>  and 'cool things'.
>
>  Yet there is a large share of people who want to look professional. 
Professional = something looking polished, that developers/designers put 
thought on.

But the most important is for the design to be usable: the large 
majority of users to feel comfortable with. When I am playing a fantasy 
RPG I am happy with the cursor being shaped as a sword, but when doing 
graphics in Inkscape, it *must* be clean and black like Bluecurve (so I 
have good contrast with the document).

>  Maybe an option should be made to customise the desktop according to
> the
>  personal preferences, thus the 'philosophy dispute' about the design
>  image could be ended. 
Changing the cursor theme is only a few click away for an user willing 
to do it, but the out-of-the-box experience must be good, as the large 
majority will stay with that.

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