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Desktop Environment User Interface Surveys

Usability
Usability

Reading over GNOME's desktop-devel mailing list and KDE's Dot News, I stumbled across two sets of user interface and satisfaction surveys that inquire into users think about GNOME and KDE's offerings. The organization performing the inquiry is the Human Aspects of Software Engineering (HASE) group over at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

I have to be candid in saying that I am surprised to see that a link to the surveys never made it here to, so I am including the links below for those who are interested in participating:

tasks are irrelevent

Who here uses gnome to do any of those tasks? If that's what you do with your gnome desktop, you are just wasting your time.

I do things like
1. write documents
2. install and run software
3. play music
4. draw circuits
5. write code

These tasks may or may not include things like renaming files, etc. The ability to rename a file efficiently does NOT reflect gnome's usability in any real life tasks.