GNOME Foundation Elections Results Are In 158
PaaChhaa writes "The GNOME Foundation membership and elections committee has announced the preliminary results of this year's elections for the board of directors. There are a few new faces this year, and Miguel de Icaza, whose candidacy was rejected last year due to late submission, is back. The run up to this year's election saw a threat of boycott, which ultimately resulted in the online publication of the foundation's financial records. Also, a heated discussion followed the posting of the list of ten questions, and the opinions of the candidates and other foundation members on these issues can be found in the foundation-list archives for the months of November and December. A notable exclusion from this year's board is GNOME's release manager Jeff Waugh. who didn't run at all."
Approval voting with multiple winners (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:No More Spatial Browsing Please (Score:5, Insightful)
I really believe its time for HIG v2, so we can see if things are improving from the user perspective, or getting worse. Nautilus on the whole is VERY confusing to the users that I have introduced to it. Just try explaining why removing the toolbar is a good thing to any reasonably minded person. All you'll get is a blank stare.
The best part is we still win . . . (Score:5, Insightful)
All of the traffic simply brings more review, attention and organization to the GNOME Foundation & GNOME Development.
It's not a negative, it's a positive, either way they both push us forward towards our goals
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Re:No More [Preconceptions] Please (Score:2, Insightful)
It does apply to everyone, because everyone sees it whenever they use a computer and try to access the filesystem.
Spatial Browsing, if implemented everywhere (including MS Windows and OSX), could become the new "preconception baggage", but it wouldn't be any better, because it's not really 'spatial'.
As currently implemented, Spatial Browsing replaces representing your filesystem as a hierarchical tree with representing your filesystem as a flood of windows which appear to be disconnected, but which actually have a vague and very poorly represented hierarchical relationship.
True spatial browsing, ala Raskin's Humane Interface, would be a real improvement. Instead of the hierarchy, documents are scattered around in groups, and you can zoom in on a group to discover that there are smaller groups within the larger group. This would make perfect sense to most people, who have stuff piled all over their physical desks using pretty much the same organizational structure.
Re:No More Spatial Browsing Please (Score:4, Insightful)
For all the Gnome guys seem to love these human interface guidelines, they seem to forget the single biggest item when making a GUI:
Any item the user is to be able to manipulate should be represented on the UI
Every time they fail to follow that, and every time they get called on it, they come up with some "Well, just press CTRL-ALT-META-LSHIFT-Q to enable that".
So a user is to pour over the documentation, reading every bit of it to find all these key combinations that are NOT indicated on the UI itself.
And this, somehow, is going to make it easier for the non-31337 user to use...