Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1701 mails)

[John Andersen <jsamyth@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Linda Walsh <suse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>   Complaints are widely spread about poor **user* interface design.  Reason?  
> The design lists are run by bottom posters -- as someone else put it, those 
> who are "tech experts" and 'old-timers".

Oh really?  Is that the reason?  [citation needed].

So if we ENFORCE html on those lists, problem solved?
Who knew it could be so ease!!




> Instead of a wiki talking about bottom posting -- that part should be deleted 
> -- and people's top posting (or not) will give you an idea of what type and 
> what level of user they are.  That's useful information.  Don't squander it.

How very disturbing.

Never mind the message.   Judge it by its package.

Really, did you just say that, or did I just imagine it because you posted in
plain old text?



> Same goes for HTML -- if they take the time to write something in HTML -- and 
> it looks nice -- maybe you should listen to them for aesthetic ideas...

Why should technical ideas be evaluated based on flowery layout and
fonts and colors?

Plain text for everybody puts everybody on a common playing field.

It prevents the bright red 24point screaming, the bold underlined
italicized emphasis and parchment backgrounds  from becoming  the
message.

It forces people to put at least a modicum of thought into their
message, proper description of problem, solutions, and questions.

And it makes it clear to people that they should wrap their lines at
some reasonable length.

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