Re: Galeon target users?

>> 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 ?

This is a silly argument. When you design something you have to make choiches,
if you do good choices your users are happy and use your product otherwise
they doesnt. Refusing to make choices is childish.
To have a clear target help you making good choices. Not having a target
at all, and try to make everyone happy bring to super bloated uis like mozilla,
that no one likes. (The developer itself doesnt, just think to Phoenix).

>> 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 wrote it when she was here. And she agreed.
And it happened very frequently to see her confused by some of the crack
we had in galeon 1.0.

>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.

I remember she enabled a pref in galeon that was causing some unwanted behavior
in the paste and that she was confused and she was not able to understand
the reason. I cant remember what that pref was though.
My girlfriend feels galeon pretty nice too, but this doesnt mean we can
do better.

>So don't belittle the vast majority of users.

Again a very borked argument. I'm not belittling anyone.
I'm saying what users I target because I've been requested to say it.
I believe vast majority of computers users (and of potential users) doesnt
have an interest in computer itself, and I'm saying I target this majority
of users. Nothing more.

Marco



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