Re: taking features away (compact view removed from Nautilus)

[Juanjo Marín <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>]

----- Mensaje original -----
> De: Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>
> Para: Federico Mena Quintero <federico gnome org>
> CC: desktop-devel-list gnome org
> Enviado: Lunes 2 de julio de 2012 17:03
> Asunto: Re: taking features away (compact view removed from Nautilus)
> 
> Federico Mena Quintero <federico gnome org> wrote:
> ...
>>  The anti-pattern for both removals is like, "there's some peeling 
> paint
>>  in this house - let's bulldoze the neighborhood".
> ...
> 
> How do you know that was the reason for the decision, if the
> background hasn't been explained? The anti-pattern for that statement
> is like, "assuming motivations out of ignorance".
> 

That's the point of this thread, some decisions are taken and people make assumptions about the reasons behind based on the scarce info available.

I think we must find a better way of communicating these changes. It is a difficult problem to address because designing GNOME by comittee doesn't work and we really need the leadership and expertise of the design team to reach a good user experience. But on the other hand, without properly communication, we lose the opportunity to develop a design pattern language in the GNOME community.

I'm sorry for just point what I think that it is a problem without suggesting a defintive solution. I think Allan posts are very good explaining the design concepts and the new designs. Maybe this is the way to go.

Cheers,

 -- Juanjo Marin