Call for vote: Nautilus use Browser view for fedora 11

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Sat Dec 20 21:10:28 UTC 2008


Mark wrote:
>  I
> think i am indeed getting done a part of what i hoped and that's
> raising awareness that this option in nautilus should be changed and
> that the majority of any linux related community is in favor of it. I
> don't have hard numbers to back that up but there are no hard numbers
> on community users so don't ask the impossible of me
>   
You are being self contradictory. If you don't have any hard numbers, 
you cannot actually claim a majority at all and yes, finding hard 
numbers is difficult if not impossible and doesn't really translate into 
usability anyway. I wouldn't blame you for this.  The real problem is 
that we haven't yet figured out a good community centric approach to 
usability though many different people are trying. Even in cases, where 
there some acclaimed usability tests behind a particular change, many 
Linux users still felt the changes were all wrong. One example is the 
Slab menu or the new KDE 4 default menu. In the end, all that you have 
accomplished is to note again, that the Linux community has strong and 
sometimes deeply conflicting view points and aren't afraid to express 
them but I think,  most of us are already aware of that.

Rahul




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