On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> Since Gnome 2.0, I've liked Gnome a lot more than KDE.
> To that end, I can't exactly say that I agree with
> Alan's assessment that:
>
> > Even if it is only used by very few users I dont
> > think any of us want to
> > turn away users from Abiword.
>
> I prefer a nice, sleek, streamlined app. A product
> with polish, rather than lots of widgets to frob.
It is good that you are setting a direction for abiword to go in and I am
happy about that.
I would hope that as features are removed they are made into plugins or
provided in some other way. I am not concerned about Abiword further
exploiting its niche and becoming slicker faster and lighter but what I am
concerned about is the tendency to through the baby out with the
bathwater. Features tend to get added for a reason and should be
seperated out carefully rather than crudely lopped off in the hope that
some one might waste time reimplementing it if it turned out to be a
mistake or something that a few people really did want.
> shouldn't value form over function, but we shouldn't
> ignore either. Form aides function, and if we're a
> mess UI/usability wise, who cares if we kept 3 users
> who liked "Open a Copy"? We just lost 3,000 who
> didn't.
If these things are removed carefully and with due consideration I think
we can have it both ways and not lose any users while still moving to a
more streamlined default interface.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
Inkscape, Draw Freely http://inkscape.org
Abiword is Awesome http://abisource.com
>
> Best,
> Dom
>
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Received on Tue Feb 22 18:24:51 2005
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