From kde-devel  Thu Jan 06 09:50:12 2005
From: dirk.schoenberger () sz-online ! de
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 09:50:12 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Superlous configuration?
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>> One option for kcontrol would be have some sort of usability level with
>> each option - say novice, intermediate, advanced - and have a option for
>> the user to select their level with novice being the default. That way
>> you
>> can have very few options for those starting off but with the user
>> having
>> the option to show the more advanced ones rather if they so wish -
>> rather
>> than someone else deciding for them.
>
> there's no such things as an "across the board intermediate" user (so you
> get
> an interface that is poorly adjusted, or the settings are so fine grained
> you
> lose all benefits), people are bad at judging their skill level and this
> strategy creates a nearly impermiable barrier to learning the rest of the
> interface. in other words, this simply doesn't work very well in practice.
>
> ever wonder why, despite it being one of the most obvious ideas, virtually
> nobody uses this strategy, and why many who have later stopped doing so?
>

May I repeat my proposal with a fully dynamic GUI via XMLGUI?
If you have that, you may also add user levels, which simply are several
"default" GUI combinations expressed as XMLGUI.
These definitions are still adaptable for each user separately....

Regards
Dirk
 
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