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Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 88.149.177.66]
on September 06, 2008 01:23 PM
Well, I LOVE KDE 4.x, it has a lot of potential, and lookg great right now.
What I dislike of kde developement, and also other FOSS project (like OOo) is that developer's priorities are far from user's ones, and the former are the only ones that advance.
Usability issues fight often with dev's egos, and bugs are often seen as "features".
One single example: the "single click open", that is a) a real nightmare if you have to manage files (I know about the new selection method, but it's buggy) b) no other desktop I'm aware has this (Windows, Gnome, OSX, etc.).
The common sense would suggest have KDE use double click as default, so 99% of computer users don't become pissed off when trying KDE, or when switching from one OS to another (yes, unfortunatly Windows is something you have to live with too many times). Instead, single click is the default, and you can't convince developers to revert that insane decision.
This is just one example of what I mean about developers cutting relation with users and reality. They think that every usability issue is just something you can argue the opposite or whatever, ignoring basic principles or common sense (I suggest a reading of Alan Cooper's books, just for start).
I'm sad I'm not able to contribute code to KDE, but in any case I'm pretty sure would be mostly ignored, at least in usability field.
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KDE Community Working Group takes care of the community
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 88.149.177.66] on September 06, 2008 01:23 PMWhat I dislike of kde developement, and also other FOSS project (like OOo) is that developer's priorities are far from user's ones, and the former are the only ones that advance.
Usability issues fight often with dev's egos, and bugs are often seen as "features".
One single example: the "single click open", that is a) a real nightmare if you have to manage files (I know about the new selection method, but it's buggy) b) no other desktop I'm aware has this (Windows, Gnome, OSX, etc.).
The common sense would suggest have KDE use double click as default, so 99% of computer users don't become pissed off when trying KDE, or when switching from one OS to another (yes, unfortunatly Windows is something you have to live with too many times). Instead, single click is the default, and you can't convince developers to revert that insane decision.
This is just one example of what I mean about developers cutting relation with users and reality. They think that every usability issue is just something you can argue the opposite or whatever, ignoring basic principles or common sense (I suggest a reading of Alan Cooper's books, just for start).
I'm sad I'm not able to contribute code to KDE, but in any case I'm pretty sure would be mostly ignored, at least in usability field.
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