On Friday 04 March 2011 10:23:00 Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On 3/3/11, david wrote:
> >> Bedroom software developers have never had to learn to
> >> eat their own dogfood.
> >
> > Actually, that is why many of the apps are the way they are. Their
> > developers made them that way because they do use them, often daily.
> > (Many open source apps came about because some programmer had an itch,
> > and scratched it.) It works fine for them, so why should they change it
> > to fit some "amateur's idea" of how the program should work?
>
> Ah, one of my favourite topics :)
>
> The thing is that you don't break it down to a programmer that his app
> sucks. You tell him how to make his app even better than it now is, in
> a way that would keep his workflow more or less along the same lines
> while improbing every other bit. And with time you can even convince
> him/her to improve workflow. I've been doing that for years, and guess
> what -- it works.
+1
Well put.
>
> Alexandre Prokoudine
> http://libregraphicsworld.org
all the best,
drew
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