October 11, 2005
A better desktop with Novell
Nice move: Novell anounced the launch of the Better Desktop initiative as part of the openSUSE project. A serious amount of Novell’s usability research, including 200 movies of people using various desktop software, is going to be released in the public domain. For most developers it is very difficult to predict how an ordinary user will use their software, so these studies might be very helpful for the open source movement to build more usable applications.