Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Fwd: Re: A new old branding?

You have a good point there Marc! And I can confirm that many people
around me (at school) do in fact use personas in all the applications
which have it, which means mostly FF and chrome. But it seems to be very
popular. 

regards

Paul


On 20/01/13 15:02, Marc Paré wrote:
> Le 2013-01-20 02:53, Jean-Francois Nifenecker a écrit :
> > Hi Astron,
> >
> > Le 20/01/2013 02:02, Stefan Knorr a écrit :
> > > sorry for the OT stuff here... this is just re: personas.
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > [1] Not really sure if that's the intended audience – but to me it
> > > seems
> > > so, as "power users" would probably rather alter behaviour by
> > > installing
> > > extensions than doing fancy things with their toolbar background. I
> > > realise, I could be totally wrong here, though.
> >
> > I also think that power users won't give a damn about that persona
> > thingy and that the others won't even know it exists and if they do,
> > won't use it either.
> >
> > Since the idea has been introduced, I stood silent because, well, this
> > is a thing of these days and I first fell rather ol'timer.
> >
> > Still, my questions are these: do we *need* that functionality? What
> > does it brings WRT software use? Wouldn't the devs be better employed
> > fixing bugs rather than developing one more (useless?) functionality
> > which would in turn bring more bugs? *Who* would use the personas apart
> > from marketers?
> >
> > BTW, I don't know anyone around me using Firefox and personas.
> >
> > I don't want to rain on the party but my POV is that TDF shouldn't go
> > that route at this moment because the usage/cost ratio seems very low to
> > me.
>
> Strange, where I teach, and where personas are available, my 240 kids
> in French classes ALL tailor their versions of FF and Chrome to what
> they want, they also exchange between each other information about the
> looks and feel of their software including their desktop looks and
> wallpapers.
>
> I agree with you that with professional people personas may take a
> back seat to functionality, but to the other larger group who use our
> software and the younger set, functionality includes the look and feel
> of their software as if defines them ... no matter how shallow a
> function you may think it is.
>
> A Lada may get us from point A to B ... but most people would prefer
> to get a hot looking car than a square box with 4 wheels to cart them
> around.
>
> Software functionality does include the look and feel otherwise we
> would not be adding any color to our brand and just go for black and
> white and save on toner cartridge cost ... and hey ... let's all just
> get B/W monitors.
>
> I don't know, but I also don't want to rain on your party either, by
> my POV is that the TDF should go this route as it adds to the
> popularity as well as gives us a larger usage base for our community
> product.
>
> This is a good functionality to add to the product.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marc


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