[openbeos] Re: Calculator
- From: "Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:37:22 +0200 CEST
Waldemar Kornewald <wkornew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I don't know if you've ever used one, but I love my TI-92+.
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> http://www.gymnase-morges.ch/docs/SemaineSpeciale/ImagesSemSpec/ti92.gif
>
(*Apologies to Waldemar up front, if necessary. I'm not sure.)
I think this illustrates a fundamental problem with open source
software (and with engineering in general?): the gap between the
producers and the consumers. Math-gifted people who love their
calculators make design decisions for the general population.
While I probably don't mind in this case, me being one of the math-
gifted ones (believe it or not), this is something developers need to
ask themselves: Will this design work for the target audience? What is
the target audience? Is it just us, or some larger group?
I'm not saying the ideas for improving Haiku's calculator that you guys
have listed are necessarily bad. I'm just hoping the easy entry /
learning curve won't be affected negatively by us pleasing ourselves,
scrathing our own itches.
(Should we care about consumers?
They've got Windows, MacOS and now Linux, already!)
(Does Be's MacOS-replacement design decisions carry any relevance,
still?)
(What's the heart and soul of BeOS, and
where do we/Haiku "think different" from Be, Inc.?)
/Jonas.
* I loved my first Casio import which is now "lost in time,
like tears in rain". Its lifespan was limited, it seems.
Too much squeezing it.
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