Linked by David Adams on Fri 12th Sep 2008 16:34 UTC, submitted by irbis
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth announced Wednesday that his company, Canonical, will hire professional designers and interaction experts to improve the usability of the Linux desktop software ecosystem. They will work closely with upstream developers to bring a better experience to users of the open source operating system.
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2005-07-07
Just as an additional note on this topic:
the GNOME Keyring maintainer and the KWallet maintainer have already started to work on a unified solution, see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16581
The Linux Foundation should really work on these things.
The Linux Foundation could probably employ one or more of the Freedesktop.org sysadmins so they have the time to actually respond Free Software desktop developer needs within reasonable time.
Right now the latency between responses is measured in months, e.g. have a look at the link above
Not their fault, this is what their members are most interested in. Once more desktop oriented members join up, this will very likely shift.