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Power User definition

Posted Feb 13, 2012 16:39 UTC (Mon) by drago01 (subscriber, #50715)
In reply to: Power User definition by dskoll
Parent article: Day: A New Approach to GNOME Application Design

> Yes, absolutely. If GNOME were not Free Software (ie, if you had to satisfy paying customers) you'd pay attention to such feedback.

No, when that happens (I have to do that but not with GNOME) I just do ask the customers *what* is bad. "It is bad change something" is just worthless noise IMO.

> This is one of the few weaknesses of the Free Software development model, alas: Developers can happily ignore feedback without much risk.

Not implementing everything every single user ask for is not ignoring feedback. That's not how it works. Fortunately many do know how to provide feedback which results into improvements being done (compare GNOME 3.0 to 3.2 and the now in development 3.4 version).

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Posted Feb 13, 2012 17:04 UTC (Mon) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] (2 responses)

No, when that happens (I have to do that but not with GNOME) I just do ask the customers *what* is bad. "It is bad change something" is just worthless noise IMO.

Well, of course it's "worthless noise" IYO. That's what I mean by confirmation bias.

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Posted Feb 13, 2012 17:06 UTC (Mon) by drago01 (subscriber, #50715) [Link] (1 responses)

OK I give up you seem to be just trolling.

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Posted Feb 13, 2012 17:31 UTC (Mon) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

I'm not trolling. GNOME developers made a bunch of changes to the way users interact with the UI. Many GNOME users said "Those changes are very bad."

I really don't see how feedback can be any clearer. You did X and users replied "Don't do X!"

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Posted Feb 13, 2012 18:05 UTC (Mon) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link]

I'm quite bad at parsing implicit communication, but it still seems to me that "this change is bad" is likely to imply "this change is for the worse".