Seigo: on introducing new ideas to free software communities

Well, as a KDE fan, I find "discoverability" pretty crap. Is it a plasmoid I've got on my desktop? With things like firefox and thunderbird and other stuff in? Pretty nifty, I'll admit, but it took me absolutely ages to work out how to put stuff in it (and there's probably an easier way ...)

And it's disappeared from my wife's desktop, and I haven't got a clue how to get it back if she wanted it ...

And I have to strongly agree with the poster who said familiarity is important. My wife has Parkinsons, so she has poor motor control, and learning is very hard because Parkinsons plays havoc with the link between short and long term memory - how are people like her supposed to cope if the user paradigm keeps changing?

That said, it's also important that the developers think the same way as the user - you may remember I hate Word(-alikes) and love WordPerfect - because the underlying mindset between the two is different and my mindset matches WordPerfect's. That's probably why I like KDE and actively avoid Gnome :-)

Cheers,
Wol