From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 16 20:06:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 409F91065674 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:06:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kritek@gmail.com) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED09E8FC0A for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:06:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kritek@gmail.com) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 9so1405024qwb.7 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:06:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=9XthVxgm74g+0yi1bWsJoPplGqrjwwVkKxe/ljRoDgg=; b=pGpyjr3cXzJ/K06/p/ZZZPV1670XOlsCdTuJVT9nZgxh1jR5zCs2Acyoxf3r+FcCTM 8oU+8Ut+zSFxUWgg64UG05fwQOpR0KEOMwYvbDXl2bM5PJS+ccqeqTVMEWMMvk9ka+hy UoNB5PRz7bN6emBWKeMPolZBbpdxNHdusG9J8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=I4e8OXFQQDAi+4FepevDoS4pPECVa1ZkWdYpB5IZ6Poa3x19q5boytDJfHIGQGfAxf QRSMByWNwtih3Y1mPQ5bS7H0531RRYni2obHGeSGEV7F5y9nbxaRwYPYjI9mCT/PEMx5 jmOLIodDBEoxbJiypIqSIfQAYWYU+SyTFBhq8= Received: by 10.214.80.1 with SMTP id d1mr2015078qab.288.1226865968243; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:06:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.214.11.17 with HTTP; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:06:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:06:08 -0500 From: "R Dicaire" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20081116193828.GB7878@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <491D59D3.8080809@spansurf.com> <20081114203914.W14337@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <491DDD56.1040001@ccstores.com> <20081114225626.GA56663@icarus.home.lan> <20081116193828.GB7878@comcast.net> Subject: Re: re changing from vista X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:06:09 -0000 On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Charlie Kester wrote: > Users can also contribute by helping to refine the requirements for > software. For example, my son is an animator and he and I have often > discussed various graphics tools. In his opinion, the Gimp is a > powerful tool which provides almost every tool or technique an artist > might want, but it's unusable because its user interface doesn't reflect > the way artists actually do their work. He says this isn't just that > they're used to Photoshop or whatever; there's something about the > nature of the task that the Gimp fails to accommodate in a natural, > effortless way. He says the Gimp feels like a tool designed by software > engineers rather than artists. Interesting analogy, and your overall point makes sense. Here's a question regarding the attitude towards moves to new software and the expectation it behave like $OTHER_PROGRAM. Photoshop had to be learned to be used initially. The questions are, does a user *want* to spend the time to learn a new interface? What do they gain by doing so? Is there a commercial drive behind the change?