Re: Modifying GNOME-About to count users

[Dan Winship <danw novell com>]

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 04:36 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > Real users won't understand the difference between GNOME and their Linux
> > distro as a whole. How would they? If you can see the lines between GNOME
> > and everything else, that means the distro/sysadmin did a shitty job of
> > integration (and the user is likely to hate GNOME because of it).
> 
> Sure, and that's why basically everything but gnome-about is going to be
> doubly icky in some way. If we somehow convince ourselves this is not
> appropriate in gnome-about, it's not going to be appropriate anywhere, and
> we should just give up. But that's pissweak. :-)

The user won't understand the question, regardless of where we put it.
So if we're asking because we care about the answer, then no, it's not
appropriate anywhere, because we're not going to get useful answers. And
if we don't care about the answer, then it's not appropriate anywhere
either, because we're basically lying to the user in that case.

-- Dan