On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Adam Tauno Williams<awilliam@whitemice.org> wrote:
That is the rub for these tools; they can only help a user *IF* the user chooses to use them. If the user insists on just working the way she/he always has... then these tools seem like an annoying interference.
Actually, that's not the problem. The problem is 2 things: 1. Compelling need - After thoroughly reviewing all these "features" and "Benefits" of things like KDE4 and beagle, I have found little if any reason to use them. Therefore, if they aren't going to offer me anything I could use, then I see no reason to force myself to try to find a reason to use them. 2. Adjusting to the change - I, as a home user, don't want to waste my time trying to figure out how to make things work for me considering the lack of benefits. But, in a business enviroment, this is the big one. This is the inertia that keeps people using Win/Office because that's what they are used to OR that's what their company purchases.
On the other hand I do think that the 'Semantic web/desktop' is over-hyped [in GNOME, KDE, and the Web] by the hard-core evangelists. Some of it seems to assume users spend all thier time in IM chats with their friends and listening to MP3 playlists. But if you're a 'real' user with large documents and heaps of e-mail and spreadsheets then search tools can make many tasks more efficient, provided you learn to use them.
I don't have text messaging on my cell phone(unlimited minutes, no home phone since 1997), don't use Twitter or anything like that, don't work in a collaborative enviroment, so I have to agree about the over-hype. Like I said, it's an answer looking for a problem. I don't mind the fact that people like bling. Just give me an easy way to turn it off. My computer is a tool. I spend a lot of time in text modes. Granted I'm not a normal computer user, but that's what I need to be productive. The devs seems to have forgotten about that when they decided to target new users. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org