Re: Middle click, "dumbing down" Slashdotted

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

Mathieu Stumpf <psychoslave culture-libre org> wrote:
> There's a pdf document somewhere about gnome design foundations (I can't
> find it now, but probably I found it on [2],

You're probably thinking of Jon's old GNOME Shell design doc [1].

> where you can read a quote
> which states something like "be usable for new users, hackable for power
> users,
> but optimize for middle users".

It reads:

"Design a self-teaching interface for beginners, and an efficient
interface for advanced users,
but optimize for intermediates."

Allan

[1] https://people.gnome.org/~mccann/shell/design/GNOME_Shell-20091114.pdf