Re: Control Center Behavior

[mike <mike redtux demon co uk>]

On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 21:15, Sander Vesik wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 snickell stanford edu wrote:
> 
> > Quoting Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 22:25, Dan Mann wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Anyone have any ideas on how the GNOME project could get good
> > > structured
> > > > exposure to "normal" people who use computers, but don't know
> > > anything about
> > > > them?
> > > 
> > > Well, now that Sun have started rolling out their beta versions to
> > > customers, we're starting to get feedback from "normal" users, and I
> > > hope we'll be able to share as much of that feedback with you as we
> > > can.  (I posted some comments here yesterday, and some were also
> > > posted
> > > to the docs list).  
> > 
> > You're going to have a hard sell trying to pass former CDE users off as
> > even remotely "normal" users... *grin*
> 
> I guess thats why Calum put quotes around normal 8-) Also, whole bunch of
> the ones we are trying to win over to gnome2 aren't cde users but
> openwindows users. And I think good portion of the feedback comes from
> people who betatest the product to decide whetver non computer technical
> users (you know - secretaries, scientists, lab staff, etc) have at least a
> chance if moved to the new environment.


just to add my thoughts to this issue

I think that maybe a significant proportion of gnome users have come
over from MS and are either sysadmins or doing support for coleagues in
a MS office environment (ie: not coders)

(my background is similar and I am probably not that unique)

I also think that these sort of people are liable to go from windows to
gnome, rather than KDE

So I feel that these people (who are liable to be heavily represented on
sites like gnomedesktop.org) could well have a feeling for "ordinary"
desktop users, even if they are not typical themselves.
> > 
> > -seth
> > 
> 
> 	Sander
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