Quoting "Batista, Facundo" <FBatista@...320...>:
My god. Three decades cost us to put in the developers head that
they're no developing for developers, that they are developing
for users.
I get the sense that the problem for many projects is that the
developers are programmers first, and whatever the application's
relevent field is becomes a secondary concern. As a result they
don't eat their own dogfood as much as they should.
In contrast, Inkscape developers are probably among the most active
users of the application. Bulia in particular, since he uses
Inkscape day-to-day in a production graphic design environment.
-mental
I'd agree. From time to time I'll click on some button accidently,
discover it is a shortcut and think, b***y hell, that was a clever
idea. I know reading the manual is good but it doesn't sink in for me
that way. There's no question the UI has room for improvement, but
while that process is apparent and as active as it is I have to applaud.