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Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars
From: |
Christopher Dimech |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Dec 2020 06:30:23 +0100 |
> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at 9:56 AM
> From: "Richard Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
> To: "Gregory Heytings" <ghe@sdf.org>
> Cc: dimech@gmx.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars
>
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> > > Shitty data obtained without care, attention, and skill is useless data.
> > > Forget the weighting!
> > >
>
> > As the saying goes: "Criticism is easy, and art is difficult." Could you
> > please create and conduct a "good" survey, according to your criteria of
> > "good"? Or at least enlighten us, poor mortals, and explain what should
> > have been done, and how?
>
> Please, everyone, let's discuss this without getting angry at each other.
> That is very important! We have to _work together_ to use the answers.
>
> The survey does not have a reprepresentative sample, but that doesn't
> mean it is useless. I wouldn't attach significance to its precise
> numbers, but even the rough quantities have something to teach us.
>
> For instance, we know that lots of users don't want the toolbars,
> but a substantial fraction do not turn them off.
>
> If we want more precise figures, I've suggested how to get them.
> But I contend that we can come up with approaches that will
> to a good job for the various kinds of users we know exist,
> without needing to know the precise size of each kind.
> We need to be clever and try lots of options.
Fully agree with that - doing a good job for the various kinds of users
we know exist.
> --
> Dr Richard Stallman
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>
>
>
>
- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, (continued)
- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Gregory Heytings, 2020/12/22
- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Christopher Dimech, 2020/12/22
- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Jean Louis, 2020/12/22
- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Jean Louis, 2020/12/22
- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Richard Stallman, 2020/12/22
- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Christopher Dimech, 2020/12/23
- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars,
Christopher Dimech <=
- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Jean Louis, 2020/12/20
- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Christopher Dimech, 2020/12/20
- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Richard Stallman, 2020/12/21
- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Christopher Dimech, 2020/12/21
- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Jean Louis, 2020/12/21
- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/21
- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Jean Louis, 2020/12/21
- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/21
- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Jean Louis, 2020/12/21
- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Christopher Dimech, 2020/12/21