Re: Middle click, "dumbing down" Slashdotted

[Mathieu Stumpf <psychoslave culture-libre org>]

Le 2013-09-30 10:56, Allan Day a écrit :
> 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].

Yes, that's it. Sure it's an "old" document, but I began to read the 
gnome design planet in chronological order to have a better progression 
overview.

> > 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

Thank you, that's exactly that.

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

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