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Desktop Environment User Interface Surveys

Submitted by khanreaper on Tue, 2005-03-29 12:28. Usability
Usability

Reading over GNOME's desktop-devel mailing list and KDE's Dot News, I stumbled across two sets of user interface and satisfaction surveys that inquire into users think about GNOME and KDE's offerings. The organization performing the inquiry is the Human Aspects of Software Engineering (HASE) group over at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

I have to be candid in saying that I am surprised to see that a link to the surveys never made it here to, so I am including the links below for those who are interested in participating:

I think jag is a typical user

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2005-04-04 02:44.

I think jag is a typical user that doesn't want to fiddle around with installations, settings and configurations and expects his system to play nice upon install, which is perfectly fine, as he represents the majority of endusers. Although i love gnome, i think he's not trolling, rather just expressing his point of view, which is a valuable indication that we're not there yet.

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