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Seeking Enlightenment (The H)

Seeking Enlightenment (The H)

Posted Nov 6, 2012 23:34 UTC (Tue) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
In reply to: Seeking Enlightenment (The H) by ovitters
Parent article: Seeking Enlightenment (The H)

> You claimed you could measure similar things objectively.

> No need to get personal or to claim you're an expert on usability research. Seems like two different fallacy arguments.

I did not get personal. I was arguing that by your reasoning (i.e. that usability issues are purely subjective), you have reduced objective, scientific research to someone's whim.

I did not claim I could measure such things. Usability experts claim they can.

> I'm a GNOME developer, and I don't insist on making your desktop behave like a tablet/phone. I don't really care what you use on your desktop actually.

I think this just about sums up the attitude many feel is coming form Gnome developers' camp. I have been using Gnome for many years and helped with fixing of many bugs. According to you, for this I should just get scorn.

I'm not that easily dissuaded.


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