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On DesignersOn DesignersPosted Oct 7, 2009 8:12 UTC (Wed) by alext (guest, #7589)In reply to: On Designers by jmm82 Parent article: LinuxCon: Some advice from Uncle Dirk
But that is thinking of the designer as a decorator rather than the person
who over sees the sum of all the parts and designs a system and by decomposition the parts.
Design is making components that work together by design rather than hacked
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On Designers Posted Oct 7, 2009 14:55 UTC (Wed) by jmm82 (guest, #59425) [Link]
Yes, true. It is nearly impossible to find a designer which can design _both_ the internal systems workings and the *eye candy*. A strong large project requires a minimum of three good designers.
1. Systems integration designer
Also, the GUI should be easy to replace with out changing the low-level code. Most projects have #2, but few have all three.
Network Manager is not be a good example because a. it is trying to tackle a problem that is close to impossible and that is to cover the needs of all network use cases. When someone comes across a use case that is not supported they say integrate it with NM or too bad. While I support NM as a project necessary to advance Linux, I disagree with this philosophy. b. Most issues I hear about are due to a lack of documentation and issues with drivers.
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