Post #4284257

@schrieveslaach@fosstodon.org @scottjenson@social.coop Open source needs a lot of UX help Yes. It needs to show commitment to the wider community because the candy-graphics approach hasn't worked. If UIs are not consistent (we throw different, unrelated UIs at users all the time) then the computer science rule of interfaces says we have a problem. We as a developer community are refusing to make the "interface promise" and users correctly interpret that as chaos. The denial that the interface consistency rule applies to user interfaces comes from an anti-user mindset. Android bucked this trend by supplying a reference UI. The result was wide acceptance. I think we should forget about Desktop Linux (which underneath is just a religious quest to make the masses love Unix) and focus on forking Android with its new desktop mode. We get user acceptance and (probable) access to a much larger array of apps, an SDK that developers actually use, and a universe of use cases and other ideas that translate into products that users readily understand.