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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Kuickshow's UI
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2002-07-19 6:57:43
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On Friday 19 July 2002 01:11, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> #if Christian Lavoie
>
> > On July 18, 2002 06:45 pm, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> > > IMO it's a different issue. KView shouldn't resize its window. It's
> > > not friendly to the user. If you view a small image, you can't see
> > > the toolbar icons. If you view a large image, kview fills the
> > > desktop. That's just rude.
> >
> > That's just a 'sane min/max' problem, not really an objection to
> > auto-resize.
>
> No, I object to auto-resize on behalf of less experienced users.
>
> I have watched such users deal with applications that resize themselves.
> They all seem to find such behaviour annoying and confusing.
>
> Is there evidence to the contrary ?

Yes, this (part of the) tread is started because people found KView unusable 
since it does not auto-resize since a couple of weeks anymore.

I myself find KView unusable for that fact alone.

Users always find problems with the software we make, get used to it and only 
look at the difference in productivity and comments between a couple of 
solutions.  Hmm, I think thats called user-testing :)

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Thomas Zander                                           zander@planescape.com
                                                 We are what we pretend to be
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