Re: Why GNOME Hackers Should Care about Usability

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Ian McKellar <ian danger com> writes: 
> None of us seriously think that GNOME will ever be usable to normal home
> and business desktop users do we? The usability-apathy is the only the
> beginning of the problem. Personally I'm focussed on making GNOME a
> great engineering desktop - and for me its currently a better
> engineering desktop than any other I've used. I use it while I'm
> end-user applications for another platform :-)

What's an example of a conflict between "great for engineers" and
"great for home users"? I don't think there are very many, and the
ones that exist are typically superficial, not fundamental aspects of
the desktop.

Havoc