Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Mon 4th Aug 2008 14:35 UTC, submitted by Hakime
"The best open source applications and operating systems are more usable now than they were then. But this is largely from slow incremental improvements, and low-level competition between projects and distributors. Major problems with the design process itself remain largely unfixed." Personal Note: I am not sure how many people feel that Free Software has poor usability. As far as the desktop environment, I find most of linux window managers to be the more user-friendly than Windows and OS X.
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Yeah, well, i think user interface designers should know better than the user. It's their job. That is why things like the iPhone rock.
And i wouldn't say it is growing within Gnome: the HIG had far more visibility during the early days of Gnome 2. Posts on the HIG have become rare on Planet Gnome.
Btw, i am not entirely sure that it is a good thing that KDE is following Gnome. I like the idea of having an alternative desktop where there basically are no rules. That makes it easier to experiment on new user interfaces.