Re: [Usability]LinuxWorld Presentation comments

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 10:09, John Palmieri wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Didn't know where to post this so I thought usability would be best.  I
> personaly did not attened the presentation on Gnome 2.2 so take this
> with a grain of salt.  
> 
> I was in the Birds of a Feather meeting dealing with Linux in K-12
> education.  One of the IT directors at a school which is considering
> moving over to Linux didn't get a warm and fuzzy feeling from the Gnome
> presentation.  Reportedly the speaker had to kill some processes and
> some things didn't work during the presentation.  The IT person felt
> nervious that she might be making a Linux switch proposal that would end
> up giving them an unstable platform.  I was tempted to say that it is
> still more stable than the Win 98 boxes she was using but knowing that
> would be counter productive instead mentioned that the presentation was
> about the 2.2 beta and that 2.0 is currently the stable branch.  Others
> in the know did so as well and she seemed to be satisfied.
> 
> Again I was not at the Gnome 2.2 presentation and am not trying to
> criticize for the sheer joy of it.  In fact I thank the presenter for
> giving up his time to prepare the talk.  I just wanted to share the
> perspective of this profesional who is trying hard to push Linux in her
> school but who is not an "insider" to Linux or Gnome development.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to attend either, which is a shame. That
said, I know much of what Michael focused on in his talk was the
accessibility framework, which (1) is known to still be unstable and (2)
isn't something that needs to concern most users. I'm sure that's
probably where most of his problems were. Anyway, I've cc'd Michael; I'm
sure he'll appreciate the the feedback.

Luis