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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: K-ARTIST:Re: K start menu icon ideas
From:       Rolf Magnus <ramagnus () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-07-28 10:43:51
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On Saturday, 28. July 2001 10:23, Torsten Rahn wrote:

> When people see the desktop the VERY first time, all of them will ask
> themselves "Where do I start?". They see the "Start"-button and get the
> answer. Pressing the button is the very first action you have to do to
> "Configure stuff", "Start applications" or whatever. So in this way it's
> very descriptive.

And what if they want to shut the system down for the first time? They'll aks 
"how do I quit Windows?". And they just don't get the answer.

> After they hit the "Start"-Button the very first time they are
> intelligent enough to realize that pressing the start-button might offer
> a lot more tasks than they might have expected. So actually the name
> "Start" serves its purpose. And I have never seen any user actually
> having problems due to the naming of "Start".

I have seen many of them.

-- 
2 hours? Boy, that's way too old. You should use a more recent version.
(Waldo Bastian about a copile error in a 2 hours old CVS version of KDE)
 
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