[Philippe Landau]
Aaron Kulkis wrote:
Your reading comprehension need work. Seems to me you would like to be right first and foremost.
ALL OF YOU Also please stop shouting.
Hi, Philippe, and everybody. I'm skimming over the current exchange. A troll is someone who usually writes to provoke emotive reactions, not a real exchange of ideas. We should calm down ourselves and avoid replying to trolls, as this yields nowhere and only raises the level of noise. It is usually effective in the long run, for getting rid of trolls, to merely ignore them. Back to serious things! :-) The original message refers to a description of the methodology used in search for a redesign of the UI, as described here: http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Development/New_Control_Center/Card_Sort_Study At least from my viewpoint, this is a fairly original approach to the design of UIs, which is quite interesting, and thought triggering... Someone once wrote that "a camel is a horse designed by a committee". I wonder a bit what a horse designed by statistics methods would look like :-). Clustering in itself, while undoubtedly powerful in some areas, is not always considered as the best way to reveal structure (loosely interpreting Venables and Ripley, MASS, 4th edition, p. 316). Moreover, getting as far as computing averages of clustering results is intriguing, but I wonder if it may be so significant (I do not know!). I once read that the "average human" (average liver, average hearth, average limbs, average weight, average height, etc.) just does not exist, it could not even be assembled, it would not survive. :-) The experience described above could yield good paths for ideas, but in such areas, this has often been demonstrated in successful projects, best results are usually obtained under the direction of a single architect, which of course should be competent and visionary enough. I guess (or at least hope) that the request for input that has been launched here, is meant to feed the thoughts of such an architect. If he wants to equally please everybody, it is likely that the resulting UI would be a bit "drab", and not raise the enthusiasm of good art works. UIs became important and are so nowadays. So, revising an UI might be a radical change, even if the underlying engine is rather stable. Besides, as long as the UI gives proper and intelligent access to a good engine, nice changes in UI design could not only be fairly entertaining for old timers, but also good selling points for newcomers. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org