Re: [libreoffice-design] About the Navigator

Hi Greg.
I think what you describe is what is needed to drive LO from the
enthusiasts arena to main stream adoption.
But as the enthusiasts are doing all the work, it requires good
management or they will no longer be enthusiastic.
steve

On 12/04/11 08:48, Greg wrote:
> Without wishing to rain on anyone's parade or do unsavoury things to 
> campfires, I think there's been a lot of great design thought here in 
> isolation of a good, hard, implementation agnostic think about enumerating the 
> real use cases. 
>
> When I say use cases, I don't mean anything to do with how to build it, what 
> looks pretty or cool but what REAL user goals need meeting, what tasks need 
> doing and which actors are involved. Then perhaps a check with users of Word 
> processors generally (i.e. not posters on this forum and not necessarily LibO 
> users only) about how well the proposed use cases would address any actual 
> need.
>
> Of course, some may prefer an agile approach, with epics, and user stories and 
> acceptance tests, &c. but I don't think LibO development is organised that 
> way?
>
> Until we've got some concrete, well written use cases validated with users, 
> the batting back and forth of designs and insiders' preferences seems a little 
> premature.
>
> Incidentally, I don't think the use cases should be constrained by what the 
> current navigator's capabilities are.
>
> I'm happy to get the ball rolling on the use case goals, to start with but 
> I'll wait to see what everyone thinks first.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Greg
>
>   

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