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<br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/10/1 Frank Griffin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ftg@roadrunner.com">ftg@roadrunner.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Gustavo Giampaoli wrote:<br>
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> Same way if you put the sweetest marmalade in an ugly and dirty<br>
> package. And you also put some dog sh*t in the most beautiful<br>
> packaging, with a nice ribbon.<br>
><br>
> Ask them "please, pick one". Which one do you think people will pick first?<br>
><br>
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</div>You're overlooking that fact that if you are a commercial enterprise you<br>
can pay people to tie ribbons around dogsh*t, but you'll find very few<br>
community contributors who are willing to do that for their own<br>
amusement and edification. :-)<br>
</blockquote></div><br>I do agree with Gustavo.<br>And what he tries to say is not « functionality is irrelevant, let's focus on design, guys ». He says (or that's what I understood) that we should consider aesthetics. And I think that in the whole community there might be people who feel concerned about/are competent in graphic design, and willing to improve GUIs.<br>
I just think that we could let them improve things instead of saying « don't put your artistic hands in my code, it works so there's no problem if the GUI is ugly ».<br><br>Functionality is the most important aspect, but design is relevant.<br>
<br>For example : I never used the 3D desktop in Mandriva, but I convinced a lot of my friends to try the distro showing them my funny cubic desktop. Just because it looks great, not because it is useful.<br>
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