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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: A radical idea
From:       Alistair Davidson <lord_inh () yahoo ! co ! uk>
Date:       2001-11-12 21:39:01
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Alistair Davidson wrote:

> Chris Howells wrote:
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>> On Monday 12 November 2001 20:06, Alistair Davidson wrote:
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>>> I'm really just throwing out a crazy idea here, and I expect to be 
>>> flamed
>>> into a cinder, or told it's technically infeasible, but I really 
>>> think this
>>> would improve KDE's usability a lot.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, but KDE =! UNIX.
>>
>> KDE is simply a desktop/graphical interface that runs on many flavours 
>> of UNIX.
>>
>> What you're talking about is fundamentally redesigning UNIX (30 years 
>> old) from the ground up -- not a trivial change to KDE.
> 
> 
> 
> No, I'm not.
> 
> 
> Me: "Anyway, that's the principle, how would it work in practise?
> 
> An alternate file-browser that presents its own, user-friendly, 
> directory structure is one option."
> 
> 
> See? A KDE file browser that takes the usual UNIX directory structure 
> and represents it in an entirely different way when the user is 
> interacting with it.
 

PS, I know this is arguably a silly idea, and may be unimplementable, but I 
figured that if anywhere is a good place for crazy ideas to be bouncing 
around, a usability list is it- we need to innovate to get ahead of MS and 
Apple in the usability stakes.

-- 
Alistair Davidson
Read my comic, Bizmatch! http://www.altgeek.org/lord_inh/comic/index.html
"Disloyalty in a democracy is to stop asking questions."


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