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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Re: Abstracting the Linux Desktop from the File-system
From:       Luke Chatburn <lchatburn () isset ! org>
Date:       2002-12-01 14:12:44
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Hi all

I have some thoughts on this subject and a more extreme way of solving this which ultimately \
might be more intuitive to the user. I get back from the US on Tuesday and I'll see about \
writing a short paper/explantion then. 

-Luke Chatburn

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On Sonntag, 1. Dezember 2002 01:36, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Kevin Krammer wrote:
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> > On Samstag, 30. November 2002 11:38, Julien Olivier wrote:
> > > I hate when I say to newbies that YOU can change it and make it your
> > > default and they answer:
> > > 
> > > "Well, fortunately you where here to explain me that, else I would
> > > have reverted to good old user-friendly windows"
> > > 
> > > Ok, that's not exactly what they say but users ALWAYS complain when
> > > they have to change something in order to make it user-friendly for
> > > them. Users LOVE good defaults.
> > 
> > But isn't that the distributors job?
> > To change the defaults to settings which match their target
> > audience's needs?
> 
> The distributor can't change things that I can't, without hacking the
> code.  These things need to be made configurable.

I was referring to the directories that can be configured.
Julien worte we need good newbe defaults, so I figured it would be the 
distributors job to provide them if newbies are part of their target 
audience.

Cheers,
Kevin

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Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@gmx.at>
Developer at the Kmud Project http://www.kmud.de/
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