Just curious how much human factors goes into the development of open source desktop packages? Are there members of the KDE or QT or Gnome teams whose sole job/interest is to further the usability of the interfaces? Or are the developers just happening to "place this here" or "place this there? Are the beta testers assuming the role of Usability testing?
It seems to me that some people are confused about IRC's role in "BitHive". I am under the impression that IRC will be merely used as a host to keep track of active connections on the net (ip's willing to share files)...not to do the actual file transfers or to keep a running database of available files (like napster's central server).
An earlier post made the comment about IRC servers just being a hobby of the SysAdmin's.
I would agree that this is primarily true, so inorder for BitHive to be successful the current IRC model can't be compromised or changed.... maybe just "borrowed" - (taking the current technology and using it for other ways than it was intended.)
-WebWiz
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Just curious how much human factors goes into the development of open source desktop packages? Are there members of the KDE or QT or Gnome teams whose sole job/interest is to further the usability of the interfaces? Or are the developers just happening to "place this here" or "place this there? Are the beta testers assuming the role of Usability testing?
-Webwiz.....
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It seems to me that some people are confused about IRC's role in "BitHive". I am under the impression that IRC will be merely used as a host to keep track of active connections on the net (ip's willing to share files)...not to do the actual file transfers or to keep a running database of available files (like napster's central server).
An earlier post made the comment about IRC servers just being a hobby of the SysAdmin's. I would agree that this is primarily true, so inorder for BitHive to be successful the current IRC model can't be compromised or changed.... maybe just "borrowed" - (taking the current technology and using it for other ways than it was intended.) -WebWiz