Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 24th Dec 2006 21:54 UTC
The GNUstep project has recently elected a new Chief Maintainer. Gregory Casamento has taken over as the new chief of the project and has posted to his blog
a set of goals which spell out the direction the project will take in the future.
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2006-10-08
"Absolutely right. If you need to give someone an appliance with minimal scope for confusion, WM is a very serious contender. "
It doesn't look childish and playful (I know, you can tweak KDE to look serious) by default. So the customer won't ask "Can I play solitaire on my x-ray workstation?" or "Will my 7 year old daughter be able to paint with the data managing computer?" It's just because it looks very professional. Maybe, that's not what someone wants to use at home for recreation and gaming, but a serious customer does not care about this. He wants to have a helper for his work, no matter how many icons can be placed on the desktop,
"And its very fast on old cheap hardware."
Just that's the way. If you're building a psychological testing and evaluating system, you won't hear something like: "Oh, of course I will buy three PCs from the store right now, I have too much money.", rather "Uhm, does my 300 MHz P2 serve the purpose?" will be suitable. So it's very easy to sell even complete systems with minimal investments for hardware. I can even offer something like "Just try it, I leave the system for three months here with you."
"Just shows: don't ask if its easy to use. Ask: easy to use by who, and for what?"
Completely right. An all-in-one device suitable for every purpose (in German: eierlegende Wollmilchsau) simply does not exist, even if some average users may think so. :-)
The good choice you have among Linusi, UNIXes and their respective amounts of toolkits and platforms makes it possible to intentionally select what's the best solution for a special purpose. So I really do not want to miss Windowmaker, GNUstep or Objective C because all of them have their fields of advantage where they cannot be beaten. Windowmaker, for example, is easy to use, looks great and is fast, even on older boxes.
And I've seen so many people having extreme problems using KDE, Gnome, or even "Windows", finding where to install packages, knowing what's their CD-ROM drive, telling what's their IP or how many RAM they have... if things get to complicated, users' brains switch off. Just "DUMB MODE ON" and clicking on everything they find... don't tell me anything, I've seen it all! :-)