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Comment on Fat Cats with an Android App. by Dakota

Dakota — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:42:17 +0000

Wow, that is funny with the cat

Comment on Fat Cats with an Android App. by Richard Querin

Richard Querin — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:44:39 +0000

This is a test comment.

Comment on Building a Crappier Sports Car (or Minivan) by Richard Querin

Richard Querin — Fri, 20 May 2011 13:07:14 +0000

I love you man.

Comment on Building a Crappier Sports Car (or Minivan) by Richard Querin

Richard Querin — Fri, 20 May 2011 13:06:02 +0000

I’m not sure your first sentence is true. Maybe it’s true for this suggestion of the PUC (ugly acronym lol), but in general have they ever really defined who they are aiming to serve?

Comment on Building a Crappier Sports Car (or Minivan) by jezra

jezra — Fri, 20 May 2011 00:04:39 +0000

They want to serve people who are accustomed to being able to configure GNOME. Unfortunately, they rushed a sub-standard product out the door and they are trying to spin “oh shit we didn’t have time to add user customization to our software” into “we are adding some shit for power users”

Comment on Building a Crappier Sports Car (or Minivan) by Troy James Sobotka

Troy James Sobotka — Thu, 19 May 2011 21:59:01 +0000

Look, I don’t know who you are, where you came from, or what you think you know (and I know you don’t know it, I think) you are totally out to lunch.

They have clearly got this stuff down.

They already have this under control. There are two demographics. That’s it. Ok?

There are End Users. And there are Power Users.

I really don’t get where you are going with all of this? Where’s your OS? Huh?

I mean, there are those two types of people. Duh. Didn’t you see that older Tron movie? There’s Users and there’s the MCP. There’s also some other stuff that I can’t really remember. I do remember thinking that Bridge’s had a rad helmet though. I was twelve then. Everyone is blue too.

I mean, who is an iPhone for? END USERS. Right? And like Windows? END USERS. Duh.

If Linix is going to be successful, it needs to focus on end users too. And get a good wallpaper. Maybe like one with Bridge’s blue helmet.

But Ubunti is almost there. Just wait until the next release.

I really wish this site had more stuff like that stuff on ZOMFGUbuhntoo…

Comment on Building a Crappier Sports Car (or Minivan) by rfquerin

rfquerin — Thu, 19 May 2011 21:17:05 +0000

I think they should decide who they want to serve and try to serve the hell out of them. But you can’t do that when you’re trying to please the whole spectrum of people. I don’t really care who they choose, but it’s critical they do choose and stand firm on that.

Comment on Building a Crappier Sports Car (or Minivan) by jezra

jezra — Thu, 19 May 2011 18:41:15 +0000

What exactly is an “Ubuntu Power user”? Someone who changes the desktop background color? Someone that likes to tweak and custom configure their desktop environment?

By setting such a firm deadline for release, Canonical had to ship Unity before it was finished. Now that Unity has shipped, Canonical can add “user customization” to Unity and market it as a “power user feature”.

Comment on Ubuntu Rebranded by rfquerin

rfquerin — Thu, 05 May 2011 22:26:50 +0000

@mingebuster

It seems you missed the fact that the first part of the post was my appraisal of the rebranding and only the last two paragraphs of the post per se were about my thoughts on gtk. I don’t really follow your comment. The ubuntu design team and the path of gtk development are two completely separate issues in my mind - and they were treated that way in my post.

I’m not sure how you come up with the whole “forsaken for rebranding” point. It doesn’t make any sense and wasn’t my aim.

As far as proper critical discussion goes, it’s subjective of course. It sounds as though you’re from the camp that thinks critical appraisal of something can’t take place unless someone’s got a better idea to present (maybe I’m wrong?) Frankly I think that’s a stupid idea that stifles all sorts of critical discussion in Libre software land.

I still stand by my opinions on the progress of design in Gnome-land.

Sorry that you don’t think you’ll subscribe, but I don’t have subscribers in mind when I write a post. That’s probably why my subscriber list is so low. Oh well.

Thanks for reading anyway.

Comment on Ubuntu Rebranded by mingebuster

mingebuster — Thu, 05 May 2011 17:40:04 +0000

Wow how sad to see that someone was so worried about rounded rectangles and the shapes of buttons when what they say they are aiming at is clarifying how they could move on with development of the underlying GUI. A point sorely missed when I read the article. If you are going to make a critical appraisal of how the Ubuntu team is doing as compared to, lets say windows 7, then buttons should be the least of your concern. Indeed you used it as a trolling point because you could have said in one sentence what you had to say. Something along the lines of “I think development of the GUI is being forsaken for rebranding”. Furthermore from that a proper critical discussion would have been followed with: I think the GUI should head in this direction…..
instead you simply made personal attacks and went on about big assed this and bloated that.

I dont think I will subscribe to your blog now