GNOME: Possible Recovery Strategies 432
An anonymous reader tips an article from Datamation about several suggestions for the GNOME project to answer user complaints and boost developer morale. From the article:
"... with very few changes, GNOME 3 could be much more acceptable to most users. A moveable panel, panel applets, desktop launchers, user control of virtual desktops, menu alternatives that would remove the need for the overview -- all of these could be added easily as options. Together, they would reduce at least ninety percent of the complaints against GNOME 3. ... If GNOME is having trouble as a desktop environment, one obvious solution is to find new niches. Lopez and Sanchez suggested following KDE's lead and producing a tablet, while Lionel Dricot recently suggested a suite of cloud-based services. ... The one strategy that GNOME has never tried is asking users what they want. Instead, the project has preferred to rely on usability theory, treating it as an exact science instead of a collection of competing ideas supported by usually inconclusive studies that could be mustered to support almost any design. In GNOME 3, testing with actual users did not occur until near the end of the development cycle, when the chances of any major changes were remote."
Re:Extensions (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Best strategy (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Extensions (Score:4, Funny)
The functionality is available as Linux comes with a C/C++ compiler.
Re:Extensions (Score:5, Funny)
That could work for most /. users but most regular users neither know how to enable extensions or care enough to learn.
We're talking about desktop Linux here - "regular users" aren't really a concern.
Re:Not just Gnome (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, Apple and Microsoft have never pissed of thousands of users by redesigning GUIs and ignoring complaints.
Car analogy (Score:5, Funny)
So out of the box every control is a switch under the instrument panel but you can install your own extensions with steering wheels, pedals, etc if you want.
"Developer morale" should be fine since they... (Score:4, Funny)
...are doing what they choose.
Developers don't need users so they don't need to give a fuck about what users want.