Browse the gnome-usability mailing list archives— you will see that there are barely more than a dozen threads each month, none of them really touching major us

Browse the gnome-usability mailing list archives— you will see that there are barely more than a dozen threads each month, none of them really touching major usability issues that would come with significant design changes. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/ http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/ I used to be involved with Gnome a long time ago (pre 2.14), and have lost touch since— so maybe the accessibility mailing list is now outdated and I'm looking in the wrong place — but I feel like there's a huge disconnect between the various teams, and that design decisions are taken by isolated groups of developers, with little regard for system coherency or good, consistent usability. Linux-world developers are good at many, many things— but in my humble opinion, good usability and design are not amongst them.