Ubuntu 10.04 will bring panel overhaul, social network menu (ars technica) [LWN.net]

Ubuntu 10.04 will bring panel overhaul, social network menu (ars technica)

Posted Dec 21, 2009 3:05 UTC (Mon) by daniels (subscriber, #16193)
In reply to: Ubuntu 10.04 will bring panel overhaul, social network menu (ars technica) by jspaleta
Parent article: Ubuntu 10.04 will bring panel overhaul, social network menu (ars technica)

You're assuming he has zero design experience. Do you know this to be true? Cite sources. (Or don't, and just stop posting comments to each and every single Mark/Canonical/Ubuntu story because you can. I think the entirety of LWN knows your views full well by now.)

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Ubuntu 10.04 will bring panel overhaul, social network menu (ars technica)

Posted Dec 21, 2009 7:52 UTC (Mon) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link] (3 responses)

You want a reference with regard to Mark's past experience at user experience design? I give you this: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8752

"Apparently Mark originally wanted, given that Ubuntu is Linux for human beings, the first release of Ubuntu to carry a tasteful, artistic picture of a naked woman. This caused everyone in the company and community to offer some version of "this is a very bad idea". So, the community got Mark to step away from that in stages. In the end Mark backed down."

"When you clicked on a folder in Nautilus, a new window would pop up on the screen. People complained about how the screens would become full of windows. Mark thought it would be a great idea that when one window opened the previous window would close. This feature, at Mark's insistence, was shipped but caused an even greater number of complaints, as users wanted to know why the Nautilus window seemed to dance all over the screen."

-jef

Ubuntu 10.04 will bring panel overhaul, social network menu (ars technica)

Posted Dec 21, 2009 9:28 UTC (Mon) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link] (2 responses)

I was going to respond with some actual content, but apathy overwhelmed me within the first sentence or so and I decided it wasn't worth it. Good luck with your vendetta, but can I suggest a blog along the lines of boycottnovell, instead of cluttering up LWN comments when anyone happens to mention Mark or Ubuntu (or in fact any other distribution)?

- Jef

Posted Dec 21, 2009 13:01 UTC (Mon) by kragil (guest, #34373) [Link] (1 responses)

Well, I think there is something wrong with Jef and he should seek help or
find some other outlet. A markshuttleworth-thetruthmovement.com site might
be just the thing he should go for. Be a crusader like Roy, Lefty and RMS.
He is posting literally thousands of comments on Ubuntu blogs, Ubuntu sites
and LWN about Canonical and especially about Mark.
I think he means well and in his wicked way is trying to protect RH, FOSS
and Fedora, but I think he is turning people away from Fedora, RH and FOss.
Most of the stuff he writes isn't that insightful, everybody with half a
brain that reads a few of his comments can infer the content of the next
few hundred comments easily.

I guess most readers by now are just skipping his posts. I advise you do
the same.

But what do I know, maybe these crusaders that seem just weird serve a
purpose in the bigger FOSS community. But I sure hope the spamming would
stop.

- Jef

Posted Dec 27, 2009 16:54 UTC (Sun) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link]

He, we all know the "with friends like these, you don't need enemies"
saying ;-)