Re: [Fwd: Nautilus]

["Shane O'Connor" <Shane Oconnor Sun COM>]

Hi Rienout,


On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 09:30, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> Shane,
> 
> Op Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:48:25 +0000, schreef Shane O'Connor:
> 
> > this is gonna be the biggest seller for Gnome.
> 
> > ...if we want to get people to shift from Windoze...
>  
> It irks me every time people talk about selling GNOME or using GNOME to
> get people to shift from some other platform. [1]
> 
> * That is not what GNOME is about *

I don't think I was completely clear - I didn't mean to imply a coporate
or commercial view point. I was talking with desktop adoption by all
users in mind...

> 
> GNOME is about making good, Free software. Not about sales targets, not
> about competing with Microsoft. 

I agree, but we have to have a focus and I assume we want people to
adopt the platform. As windoze is the biggest market player I also
assume those users would be in our target audience. 

>  But if we let our design
> decisions be heavily influenced by such motives, I believe we'd be giving
> up on our ideals. And the trolls saying that GNOME has been hijacked by
> corporate types will be right after all.

As it happens a lot of the feedback I've had on nautilus spatial mode is
from friends and friends of friends who I've managed to introduce to
Gnome - most are pretty clued in users and in some cases experienced
programmers and pretty much all of them agree that spatial mode is way
more confusing to new users.

> [1] Also, have you considered the people who have never used a computer
> before? 

To be honest I can't see any total newbies preferring spatial to browser
but as I don't have any data or experience to back that up I could be
way wrong ;)

Thanks
Shane


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