http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/desktop_architects/2005-December/000395.html On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Gregory Raiz wrote: > > Technical users often feel that a usable design can dumb down the interface. No. That's not what I'm talking about at all. When user interfaces means that something CANNOT BE DONE, it's not about "usable design" any more. At that point, it's about UNusable design. Any Gnome people who argue that it's about "usability" have their heads up their asses so far that it's not funny. I've argued with them about this before, and I know others have too, and mostly given up. "Usability" is an issue only if you can do something at all. But if you can't do the thing at all, it's pointless to talk about usability: the thing is BY DEFINITION not usable if it cannot be used for a specific task. Then a person that claims that it's usable for something else is a FUCKING IDIOT. And in that FUCKING IDIOT vein: > The majority of end-users want a simple printer dialog. This is a great example of being a F.I. There is no such thing as a "majority of end users" in general. For example, maybe _I_ am in what you _claim_ to be a majority, in that I want a simple printer dialog - because I have a simple printer, and even simpler printer needs. So a simple printer dialog doesn't bother me, and as such you can count me in your "majority". But I can guarantee you one thing: the _vast_ majority of people are part of a specific minority when it comes to something. This is somethign that the F.I. "interface designers" in the Gnome sense seems to continually overlook. For example, maybe I don't care about printers. But I _do_ care about my mouse. If I can't control the left/middle/right button actions, I get really upset. Again, the "majority" of people may not care, so by your majority argument, the mouse setup should be so simple that the majority of people can never get confused. But I _do_ care. In other words: your "majority" argument is total and utter BULLSHIT. It can be true for any particular feature, but it's simply not true in general. To put it in mathematical terms: "The Intersection of all Majorities is the empty set", or its corollary: "The Union of even the smallest minorities is the universal set". It's a total logical fallacy to think that the intersection of two majorities would still be a majority. It is pretty damn rare, in fact, because these things are absolutely not correlated. And the technical term for somebody who claims to do user interface design and not understand this fact is a "FUCKING IDIOT". And this has _nothing_ to do with "technical users". Even totally non-technical users care about something. In fact, it might be their printer, and having a way to set the paper type and resolution by hand. Another way of saying this: we're _all_ "special" some way. We're damn quirky, even the nontechnical among us. But hey, just continue to remove all that confusing functionality from Gnome. I don't care. I voted with my feet. Linus
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