On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Christoph Thiel wrote:
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Aschwin Marsman wrote:
Dear Christoph, Thanks for your quick reply.
Looks like a promising project to me, but I have two remarks: - I can't view the videos, time outs occur.
The server that delivers the videos seems to be down. I'v escalated this to Novell IS&T.
The server wasn't available yesterday evening when I tried again, but it is available now. It would have been wise to make sure the website and it's contents are available if Novell is putting a press release on the web though.
- The video's are taken from the Ximian website, which I would not describe as desktop neutral if you want to perform usability tests on different parts of the KDE and GNOME desktops.
If you look at the videos, you'll find that both KDE and GNOME were
I couldn't look at the videos yesterday, but I'm currently watching one.
tested. Quoting betterdesktop.openSUSE.org: "Over the past year, we have conducted many usability tests on different parts of the KDE and GNOME desktops."
That's not my point, I know they did test on both KDE and GNOME, but I can't see ximian as an unbiased entity when you are doing those tests. Have they developed improvements for KDE since Novell took them over?
Is Novell's desktop future on GNOME?
No. Neither GNOME nor KDE are the privileged Novell desktop environment - they both have the same status.
But what about specific installation tooling and new applications: I don't hope Novell is creating a Yast specific for GNOME, one for KDE and one written in MONO? It could be done off course by using something like an observer like pattern: create the functionality (backend) once and have different views on it using a GNOME/KDE/... frontend. What are the ideas on this for the OpenSUSE project? As a usability example: I would like to have the ability to make some improvements (in my opinion) to e.g. you: When downloading the patches and everything went will I don't want to press the Finish button myself, I would like a checkbox that gives me the option to specify the behaviour I described above. When will development be open for these kind of issues, and who will decide if a proposed patch will be included or not? Some short info about myself to put my remarks above in place: I'm a software developer based in the Netherlands, started in 1990 with Ultrix on a VAX and started with the SLS Linux distribution in 1993. I have developed technical software which mostly also included user interfaces for e.g. wafer steppers, air/vessel traffic control, radiotherapy and I'm currently working on self-checkout solutions for supermarkets. I've almost always worked on a UNIX/Linux platform.
Regards Christoph
Have a nice weekend, Aschwin Marsman -- aschwin@marsman.org http://www.marsman.org