Hi,
I've probably met a number of you in Brest or Busan.
Anyways I'd like to help align open source GUI features with user expectations and realize maybe you can help me.
The basic idea is a popcon but for desired software behaviors. Currently developers don't necessarily have a clear empirical signal of how much changing a behavior is desired.
There's a perennial risk of catering to a vocal 1%. I'm thinking of building a votable database of behavior changes, not bugs but instead user preferences.
This will help in a number of ways:
1. motivated new developers will have something to work on and a defensible position when submitting changes
2. claiming that something arcane and difficult is the sensible default that 99% of people want to do 99% of the time can have a somewhat questionable but at least nonzero empirical backing
3. we can help give guidance for a more sensible desktop experience by aligning the user preferences in a more coherent structure.
I can of course build this independently but positioning it under Debian I think is a mutually stronger position and I'd probably be able to get more people on board to help make this a reality faster.
Does this sound like something that can align with popcon?
It could be, for instance, just a command line tool that does an xdg browser invocation on a url based on command line parameters. So the actual diff would be maybe +40 lines in a new file.
We can even do salsa sso and all that jazz.
~Chris