Re: Re: Look and Feel

[Jason Clouse]

On 2005-02-16 23:22:02 -0500 MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

> Do we accept that UI is a minority expertise? If so, can we trust
> a majority to make a good decision?

We're not talking about UI.  We're talking about GNUstep's 
out-of-the-box look.  Totally different things.

> No-one did deliberate market research in there did they?

I read every comment on this story when it was released and I've read 
the comments on the previous stories.  The large number of people who 
say things like "Yeah, but it looks terrible.  I'd never use something 
that looked like that!" is evidence enough.  It doesn't matter if 
there is a theme bundle for some.  They'll download the source, build 
it, take a quick look, and go back to GNOME, KDE, or XFCE.  If it 
doesn't look very slick, many will just pass on by.  And that would be 
sad.

> Also, (fortunately) slashdotters are not the real world.

No.  But Slashdotters are representative of the people who might 
consider using GNUstep.