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[Alexandre Prokoudine]

On 3/3/11, david wrote:

>> Bedroom software developers have never had to learn to
>> eat their own dogfood.
>
> Actually, that is why many of the apps are the way they are. Their
> developers made them that way because they do use them, often daily.
> (Many open source apps came about because some programmer had an itch,
> and scratched it.) It works fine for them, so why should they change it
> to fit some "amateur's idea" of how the program should work?

Ah, one of my favourite topics :)

The thing is that you don't break it down to a programmer that his app
sucks. You tell him how to make his app even better than it now is, in
a way that would keep his workflow more or less along the same lines
while improbing every other bit. And with time you can even convince
him/her to improve workflow. I've been doing that for years, and guess
what ­-- it works.

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org