On Feb 5, 2008 3:59 PM, Jari Rahkonen <<a href="mailto:jari.rahkonen@pp1.inet.fi">jari.rahkonen@pp1.inet.fi</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The "user" in user friendly refers to both newbies and us so called<br>power users. I don't subscribe to the idea that being user friendly<br>somehow automatically has to make the app less powerful. The UI needs to<br>
be clean and logical to be efficient and provide the necessary amount of<br>(but not too many) options and configurability with sane defaults, and<br>everybody wins.<br><br>Xfce doesn't make being lightweight its only priority and I don't think<br>
we should either. The only assumption we should make is that people<br>don't want to spend time fiddling with their system or learn unnecessary<br>stuff when they could be doing something productive instead.<br><font color="#888888"><br>
- Jari</font><br></blockquote></div><br>I'm not trying to imply that the applications aren't (or can't be) easy to use. I'm just saying that they don't go to the same lengths to do any hand-holding like some GNOME and KDE apps do.<br>