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Re: Installation Report for Sarge



On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:30:13AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> writes:
> > 8. Add a starter for epiphany and evolution to the top panel and remove
> > the starter for gnome-terminal (this was also suggested in a recent 3rd
> > party usability study of GNOME)
> 
> Why would you remove the terminal starter?  It's very useful.  

It's also very confusing when you've never seen one.

> We should encourage people to become familiar with all aspects of
> their system -- 

So that means we should add Icons for all aspects of the system to the
top panel?

> and the command line is very empowering in debian.

Of course. But if you just want to browse the web, read/write mail or
listen to music, you don't need it.

> Did the "3rd party usability study" actually recommend that?  Did they
> give reasons?  Who was the study by, and what sort of users did they
> look at?

http://www.userinstinct.com/viewpost.php?postid=gnome26review

For this specific item, see point 3 on this page:
http://www.userinstinct.com/viewpost.php?postid=gnome26review&page=3


Michael



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