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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: K start menu icon ideas
From:       Torsten Rahn <tackat () suse ! de>
Date:       2001-07-27 23:21:30
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Sheldon Lee Wen wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>    A few people have told be to post thie to KDE artists, or KDE look or even
> KDE devel so I'm posting it to all of them. There has recently been some
> discussion on improving the usability of KDE as a result of the gnome
> usability study that sun did. One of the things that was raised was that the
> K menu button was just as ambiguous as the gnome foot, something which was
> cited as a problem for usability. A few suggestions have been made as to
> improve this aspect of KDE> One very good suggestion put forward was to make
> the icon wider, thus improving it's visibility on kicker. In that vein I've
> bashed a few pixels together and done some concept shots of what one might
> look like. Now, I'm no artist so these aren't real icons or anything, but
> they give you the idea. I'd also welcome other ideas as well. OK, you KDE
> veterans, don't freak out when you see the "start" ones. You can see them on
> a corner of my website I threw up for KDE, here:

Well - I already proposed something similar some months ago (including a
"go"-textstring aside the icon itself) - unfortunately according to
Matthias Elter it's not that easy to implement this.

Concerning the Sun-Usability-Study: Most of the issues mentioned there
aren't really that interesting - in fact I'd consider most of the
problems there as long-known issues. Actually I ask people who are
visiting the the KDE-booth on Linux-events quite similar questions. It
always turns out that the biggest problem is _not_ to become aware of
the existing problems of the interface but to find a viable solution to
solve the issue.
Concerning icons for example it's quite easy to find out which icons are
good symbols and which aren't. I'm quite aware of those icons which
don't really give good symbols and aren't very intuitive. The real
problem is to find something that might do better (idea+designconcept).

Greetings,
Tackat



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