On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 09:41:18 +0200, Nils Philippsen <nphilipp redhat com> wrote: [...] > This is what we should do, and I think I have done my part of it ;-): My > wife (she is one of those prototype end users who find all the bugs) > told me that she wouldn't _expect_ a "burn this" button in the playlist > manager/music app/whatever. I.e. if she would want to burn her music she > would first go to the CD burning app (or Nautilus module, implementation > doesn't matter), because she doesn't use music apps very often (she > listens to CDs on the stereo if she wants music) and so doens't know of > a "burn this" button. So do the same and ask your spouses, friends, > household members, other _ordinary_ people. > > Another thing I learned from my GUI lecture was that you don't need a > thousand answers, the 10 or 20 we might get here by asking personally > are just enough in our case. [...] But desktop concepts are always changing. Notice that both iTunes and Windows Media Players now are offering a "burn this stuff" directly from the same user interface which plays the media. Maybe *now* ordinary users did not expect these, but "updated users" of both Windows and Macs have this option now, so I would expect Linux users will expect this too. regards -- Marco Ermini http://macchi.markoer.org - ICQ 50825709 - GPG KEY 0x64ABF7C6 - L.U. #180221 Perche' perdere tempo ad imparare quando l'ignoranza e' istantanea? (Hobbes)
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