Re: Galeon target users?

On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 11:17:35AM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> >-- Messaggio originale --
> >From: Tommi Komulainen <[email protected]>
> >To: [email protected]
> >Cc: Erich Schubert <[email protected]>, Lee Willis <[email protected]>,
> >   [email protected]
> >Subject: [Galeon-devel] Galeon target users?
> >Date: 12 Oct 2002 13:09:02 +0300
> >
> >
> >On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 12:31, [email protected] wrote:
> >> >-- Messaggio originale --
> >> >From: Erich Schubert <[email protected]>
> >> >Subject: Re: [Galeon-devel] Ideas/Regressions
> >> >Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 20:08:51 +0200
> >> >
> >> >I'm not talking about pure power-users, but of not stripping galeon
> of
> >> >functionality many users like.
> >> 
> >> You said galeon is designed for power users, and that's bullshit.
> >> If there are still parts targeted to power users in galeon I consider
> them
> >> bugs.
> >
> >So who exactly are the target users then?  I think that has become less
> >clear since galeon1 was obviously on power user crack :)
> 
> Yeah 1.0 was. Some previous versions was a lot less so.
> 
> It's really hard to say what is the target users for the whole team. I guess
> users I target and users, say ricardo, target, are very very different.
> I have very clear what my target user is and I guess it make sense to say
> it (once again ;)), hoping to be able to make it clear with my sucky english.
> I target the vaste majority of users that doesnt have specific interest
> in computers but use computers to get their work done. This sounds very
> generic but the only way I think I'm able to show it is by examples.

And you know better than all of them what is good for them, right ?

> My girlfriend (again ... sorry) use computers to write letters, keep lists
> of clients at work ... She use a web browser to find documentation about
> his work, to decide which movie to see ... She doesnt have any interest
> to learn about web pages internals, to learn gestures, to apply a particular
> css to his page. I see she could benefit from a better css, but she for
> sure doesnt want to learn what a css is and how to write it. So, no, I dont
> think galeon should have the css crack we had in 1.2.
> Would she spend time learning gestures ? No, not really, it doesnt matter
> if they would make her work a bit faster. She _doesnt want_, she _doesnt
> need_ to be educated about computers, she has different interests. Does
> she need many cool features in a web browser, does she have fun trying them
> out ? Again, no, not really. The simpler the browser is, the better.
> Is my girlfriend totally stupid about computers -> we could ignore her maybe
> ? No, she isnt. She got two works and she was ever the more clued of her
> office.

Mmm, did you give this part of the mail to read to your girlfriend, and
what is her opinion on this ?

I am in a similar situation to your, my wife and i use the same user
account on my box, and thereof the same browser settings, but upto now,
she never enabled a page breaking menu item, and she finds galeon 1
quite nice.

So don't belittle the vast majority of users.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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