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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    RE: visibility?
From:       Ashish Trivedi <ashish () iitg ! ernet ! in>
Date:       2000-03-09 5:40:59
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Hi
	That's a great idea Timo
cu
Ashish




On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Hummel, Timo wrote:

> Well, I feel that many people are interested that KDE2 becomes an
> easy-to-use,
> intuitive environment. I wonder if somebody has thought about to create a
> group of KDE developers and KDE users (as well as non-kde-users) to discuss
> about what is useful and what is not, and then decide or make suggestions
> what to change in KDE (or what is good). If such topics are discussed on the
> list, I always feel that the answers vary depending on in what mood someone
> is.
> 
> So my idea: What about if we get a KDE usability crew?
> 
> Details:
> 
> - The group should consist of a vary of developers, KDE users, Windows
> users, and normal
>   X users. This group should be well mixed up.
> 
> - The KDE users, Windows users and normal X users bring in suggestions (of
> course the 
>   developers can do this, too). The developers check out if the suggestions
> of the users
>   are realizeable (is that right? sound somehow wrong...my english processor
> is still booting :)
> 
> - This crew also sends suggestions to the original application authors, as
> well as to the base developers.
> 
> - It's also important that the members don't flame, e.g. they don't discuss
> about which OS is better or not.
>   The primary goal is to look and compare and see what others made better
> what KDE doesn't, or find completely
>   new ways. Combining existing things and creating new ones is the most
> powerful tool you got :)
> 
> It is very important to know that this crew makes only TECHNICAL CORRECT
> SUGGESTIONS. These suggestions
> are not mandatory (that's why they are suggestions), the developers decide
> wether to implent these
> suggestions or not. 
> 
> yours
> Timo
> 

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