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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] jargon is bad! :)
From:       "David Jarvie" <djarvie () kde ! org>
Date:       2010-03-22 12:20:38
Message-ID: a9a26d19f483dc3fc6ff8236158d4e89.squirrel () www ! sensical ! net
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On Mon, March 22, 2010 11:35 am, Dr. Robert Marmorstein wrote:
> On Monday 22 March 2010 5:41:34 am David Jarvie wrote:
>
>> That may be true for the category of user who is interested and
>> motivated
>> enough to look up the term. But for another category (which I suspect
>> forms the majority), i.e. those people who don't care about how the
>> system
>> works and only want to get their task done, they will just ignore the
>> message if at all possible and try to carry on without understanding
>> what
>> it said.
>
> I disagree completely.  If the problem is sufficiently serious to merit
> attention almost any user is going to turn first to Google.

That assumes that the *user* decides that the problem is sufficiently
serious to merit googling. Completely non-technical users won't
necessarily recognise the problem as serious in the first place, and won't
be interested in knowing the meaning of a technical term anyway.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KDE developer.
KAlarm author - http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm

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