[Mageia-dev] About Mandriva tools future : Host Mandriva tools on github

Fri Oct 1 21:30:01 CEST 2010

Fabrice Facorat wrote:
+
+> 2010/10/1 Romain d'Alverny
+> <rdalverny at gmail.com>:
+(...)
+>> Both (substance, appearance) are crucial. If you only consider one
+>> without balancing, making it consistent with the other, you're not
+>> going down the right path. The interface, the whole experience with it
+>> is the product.
+> 
+> sure, but appearance is the key point.
+> 
+> Archos is a good example of what we should not do ...
+> 
+> I'm still amazed by the technicals limits of the iPhone, and how
+> people can still want to buy them ... same for iPod ...
+> 
+> iPod : no mp3, no FM radio, no USB mass storage support
+> iPhone : no standard visio, no ability to create without iTunes or
+> third party tools photo albums, less capable facebook integration, no
+> FM radio, no flash,  and so on ...
+
+iProducts don't have all the bullet points, all the technical specs that an 
+UberGeek would like. 
+
+But the ones they have: work great, are integrated with the rest of the 
+ecosystem, are user-friendly and they are aesthetically pleasant. 
+
+By focusing on 90% of specs and getting them to be 95% perfect, instead of 
+having 100% of specs and getting them to be just 50% workable, regular 
+people (95% of the population) like their products.
+
+Apple's approach mimics the Unix philosophy (every small tool covers a task 
+extremely well, and integrates with the rest of the Unix system): every 
+single technical bullet point included does a task extremely well with the 
+rest of the tools and look'n'feel.
+
+Mandriva tries that, with look'n'feel consistent on MCC, KDE and Gnome. 
+draketools work on TUI or GUI. They work well.
+
+IMHO, Mageia should improve on Mandriva, not try to get just "bullet points" 
+on what our distro does.
+
+Let's pick our battles, go the Unix way, make sure what Mageia does, it does 
+very well. And as Linux is Linux is Linux is Linux, it will do everything 
+else as well (and the kitchen sink).
+
+
+Salut,
+Sinner
+
+