Hi...

Just for reference for everyone, I'm working on a control panel
reorganisation, which I'll start posting to the usability mailing list
tonight.

I've seen a lot of suggestions about degrees of control, etc. but I think,
honestly, that is not needed. It makes the entire process more complicated
and it is arbitrary, since a definition of complexity is purely based on the
experience of the developer. The user, coming from a different background,
having, perhaps more experience in fonts than network setup, etc. has a
skewed perception of complexity, and this varies according to the task to be
performed as well.

Sensible organisation and clear help are the best ways forward, not adding
systems for shielding users from functionality.

See what you think of my re-organisation and then let's go from there. We're
talking very little re-coding here, mainly in just moving elements around in
the list and maybe adding some control modules as tabs in others. *There is
no new coding involved*, and I think we can all agree that this is best.

Sorry to jump in like this, but I haven't personally coded control modules,
nor have I taken part in usability discussions, so I feel like I'm treading
on the toes of the usability folks here. I apologise for that and I will
offer a suggestion but no more.

-Luke

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Jansen" <ml@tjansen.de>
To: <kde-devel@kde.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: Ui enhancements


> On Sunday 26 January 2003 05:52, Michael Kreitzer wrote:
> > different types of problems in computers is a tree.  There are many more
> > out there. The trick is finding a sensible and easy to use
organizational
> > structure to put all of those options into, not avoiding the problem by
not
> > including them at all.
>
> The problem with that is that the user doesn't know where to find the
option
> in the tree. If you search for an option, and it is not in the category
you
> expect you to be at, do you stop searching, or do you go through all
> categories in the hope to find it? I do the latter.
> (Yesterday was the last time that I had this I had this problem: I tried
to
> find out how to disable the 'smart' window open policy in Konqueror. Where
> can I find it? For me, the logical place was 'Behaviour'. But it was in
> 'JavaScript'... )
>
> bye...
>
>
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