Wow, what a can of worms.<div><br></div><div>Good comments, though, all the way around.</div><div><br></div><div>I've found that most users are only comfortable with metaphors they already know and are comfortable with. (Which in itself makes for moving targets.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm quite comfortable with arcane and cryptic commands, so I adapted to tahoe quite readily. I am not a good user to get feedback from. My cohorts, however, seem to be good testers for UI.</div><div>
<br></div><div>I advocate investing in FUSE or a FUSE-like layer that will allow users to interact with their tahoe stores through the windowed file manager they are already accustomed to. </div><div><br></div><div>Apparently, making the FUSE layer for Tahoe is harder than one would guess.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thoughts:</div><div> - Create a default alias for tahoe to use (users would expect this from a new volume).</div><div> - Point the FUSE layer at that default alias.</div><div> - Bury the ability to use multiple, independent aliases below the FUSE layer.</div>
<div> - Allow for the use of multiple aliases etc either at another level (editing config files), or figure it out later and add in a future version.</div><div> - Users really dislike what they do not already understand. "Intuitive" is a highly overused and vague term. Settle for what users are already accustomed to, you can call it "intuitive" if you want to.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>----<br>- Think carefully.<br>- Contra mundum - "Against the world" (St. Athanasius)<br>- Credo ut intelliga - "I believe that I may know" (St. Augustin of Hippo)<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:05 PM, EdPimentl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edpimentl@gmail.com">edpimentl@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Understand and accept your position.<br>Personally, my interest is in enhancing Tahoe, I have no ulterior motives and not here to debate what "optimal" means.<br>What ever the list accepts as the improved user experience, I am prepare to sponsor via a bounty.<br>
Just want to contribute to the project..<br><br>-E<br><a href="http://vCardCloud.com" target="_blank">http://vCardCloud.com</a><br><a href="http://Datr.Ws" target="_blank">http://Datr.Ws</a><br>
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